For many remarkable photographers of the past and present, flowers have been a classic subject matter to which every photographer brings their own ideas. My primary technical concern in these was the use of light as a way of achiveing chiaroscuro, using a timeless technique to illuminate the uniqueness of each flower. One can follow my inspiration in the work of Weston, Mapplethorpe, Blossfeldt and Renger-Patzsch. I establish a "relationship" with the flowers while I am working with them: in time they tell me how to capture them. Each flower has a personality unique as any person, animal or landscape. I do not romanticize them my using soft lenses or warm toners. Their beauty and power come from the "actual exactness" of what they are. I do not need to impose on them artfulness. Nature did that for me. Rather than trying to obscure them by imposing photographic techniques that camouflage their precise characteristic, their magnificence comes from showing the geometry, forms, textures as a given. Actual image sizes are approx: 8 by 11, 11 by 16, 15 by 20 matted larger. See above menu for PRICES AND SIZES.
