“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” by Gerard De Nerval
Not far from my home is a field of daisies that grows next to a forest. I visit it each year and make photographs for hours. Each year I discover something new
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“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him”. ~Auguste Rodin
The surprise lily is one of my favorite flowers. The petals almost look like brush strokes. There is great joy in exploring a flower and discovering all the possibilities among the patterns, shapes and colors. It is the easiest way I know to get into the creative “zone”.
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One of our clients sent us this picture of an installation of one of our images as an ” around the corner” installation in a healthcare facility. It is on frosted Plexi and it is 8 feet high by 16 feet long! We think it is a creative way to approach using art for a corridor space.
There is a zone I strive for when creating photographs. It is probably similar to the zone athletes and other artists reach where time stops and there is only this moment…..
It is a wondrous place!
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I discovered this patch of butterfly weed while exploring a cedar glade early one summer morning.
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her … I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” ~ Claude Monet
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On a recent trip to Texas, I spotted these islands of bluebonnets that appeared to be floating just above a sea of yellow and green. The Texas Dandelions made a wonderful “ocean” for my “Bluebonnet Island” composition. It is always exciting to me to find subjects in nature that can be portrayed literally and in a totally unrelated way simultaneously. In this case a field of Texas Bluebonnets and Texas Dandelions becomes islands of blue floating in an ocean of yellow.
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Just returned from one of my “almost” annual trips to Texas. This wasn’t the best year for flowers (though the spring display of flowers is incredible even in a bad year) so I devoted more time to exploring the Hill Country that Texas is so famous for. Here are a few images from this trip and below the WordPress gallery be sure to check out the link to one of my Texas portfolios. Enjoy!
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I spent several mornings this summer photographing in a field of sunflowers. I arrived at sunrise and wandered among them looking for different compositions. After spending an hour or so going for the obvious images, I would begin to seek out images that challenged my thinking and revealed aspects of the flowers that was a bit different.
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I have mentioned before, I am drawn to photograph water lotus and water lilies flowers and leaves. In preparing some lotus images for a client I decided to do a little research on the water lotus and discovered some interesting facts:
The plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China. It is often mistaken for a water lily. The lotus is a completely different plant unrelated to the water lily.
In has many uses for food. In Asian cultures the roots, leaves, and flowers are used in many recipes as garnishes, teas, medicines and soups, just to name a few.
From ancient times the lotus flower has been a divine symbol in many Asian traditions.
