Ivory Flame
I've been very fortunate to work with Ivory Flame - a wonderful figure model - a couple of times. Here are some of my favorite photos from our sessions. As always - photographs created with models are always a collaboration of artists. So Thank You Ivory Flame for all...
The Butterfly Collector
I created this still life with other participants at a workshop with Karen Burns and Marie Otero. We started out with the sewing tools - added what looked like a handmade stuffed rabbit carrying a butterfly net. And then we added the butterflies, and some flowers....
Photos from my studio
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by type of flower - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated...
Fall Color in the Smokies
Over the years, I've spent several weeks photographing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the fall. On every visit, I kept hoping to capture a photograph of one of the hillsides covered with the bright colors of changing leaves, and maybe even a little fog...
Summer in the Gardens
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by type of flower - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated...
Pink Root
Pink Root (Spigelia marilandica), also known as Indian Pink and Woodland Pinkroot, is a late spring into early summer blooming wildflower here in the DC area. The distinctive red and yellow flowers stand out in the woods, or in a garden. Pink Root is native to...
Still More Spring Wildflowers
So with Covid - I haven't been able to get out an photograph this year the way I usually do. Instead I'm working my way back through unedited photos on my hard drive - and seeing what I find. Here I'll be sharing some photos of wildflowers I've taken Trout Lily...
Dutchman’s Breeches
Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) are a wonderful spring wildflower. They bloom here in the woods here n the DC area in March and April, at roughly the same time as the Spring Beauty blooms, and shortly before the Virginia Bluebells open up. They are...
The Beauty of Fall
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by subject - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated to a...
Happy Anniversary
In the Victorian language of flowers, one of the meanings for peonies is happy wedding anniversary. For this still life, I imagined a woman thinking back to her wedding day on her anniversary. She has a photograph of herself and her husband on their wedding day, a...
Spring in the Gardens
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by type of flower - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated...
Poppy Anemone
In recent months, I've been experimenting with photographing flowers as portraits with custom backgrounds designed to highlight what I see as the personality of the flowers. For this poppy anemone, I wanted to emphasize the soft purples in the petals and the greys in...