In the great light of the world flowers are creatures too, and love to sway and dance in the breeze. In extraordinary beauty there is humor and escape from the…

This is one of the light box compositions I've made using the glorious spring weather in northern California since I've been home from Spain!

Composition with Delphinium and Poppies is a good example showing one of the organizing principles I teach in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop and my books. The first premise…

What joy to come home to my family and garden in Berkeley, and find spring still in bloom! These are two Papaver rhoeas---corn poppies---from our garden. I photographed each on…

From the median strip of nearby Arlington Avenue we clipped some branches from a beautiful, blooming apple tree. Arlington Ave is too busy for my taste, and one has to…

Oxalis is a modest plant, considered more weed than flower. The Oxalis shown here is Oxalis stricta, also known as yellow woodsorrel or sourgrass. In season, this Oxalis grows in…

Thanks for participating in my previous request for comments on Decorative Grasses and Blades of Grass. Today's Which variation do you prefer? And, why? involves six images. What these variations have…

Yesterday we decided it was time to do some spring planting so I would have flowers to photograph and so our garden would look pretty. We came home with a…

Star Magnolia---magnolia stellata---is one of my favorite flowers. In the past I've photographed magnolia stellata for transparency here, as an upright branch, and as a light box panorama. The two…

Related image: Osteospermum. Would you like to learn how to make images like this using a light box? We still have a few spaces left in our June session of…