Category: Botanicals
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The leaf of the Embaúba (Cecropia)
One of my favorite trees for photography in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil is the Embaúba (Cecropia). In this post I talk about this leaf and give tips on how to photograph it.
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Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees, part two
Upon closer scrutiny of my photos from Calaveras, however, I did find a couple of photographs that succeeded in showing dogwood flowers in front of the Giant Sequoia.
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Chloroplast, the book
I self-published a photography book based on my “Chloroplast” portfolio using BookWright.
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Celebrating the sunflower season
This year I decided to celebrate the sunflower season with a digital art portraying the sequencial wilting of a sunflower. I combined several pictures into one using photoshop layers then I added a stone texture.
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Lotus photography, William Land Park
A found Lotus leaves dancing in the wind at the William Land Park in Sacramento, and that was more fun than photographing the flowers in bloom.
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Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” Popular saying. On Mother’s Day, May 8th, and on Mon, May 17th, I walked the South Grove Trail at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park with a composition on my mind: I wanted a shot of the blooming Pacific Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, against the trunk of a Giant…
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ICM photography at North Table Mountain
I go to Table Mountain every spring for the wildflowers. This year it was beyond crowded, and since I had photographed the place ad nauseam in the past, I packed light (just my toy camera, the Z50 and its 50 mm dedicated lens). My intention was to enjoy the walk and friends…
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Fading beauty photography
The Only Constant in Life Is Change.- Heraclitus The other day, after noticing how the flower above had turned into such a wild old lady with the “hair” all messed up, I could not resist making a portrait of it. Aging is a common experience to all of us, and…
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Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white
The California poppy is the official state flower and is flowering now in the Central Valley.
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Anatomy of a monocot leaf
The leaf of a monocot plant is characterized by major leaf veins running parallel.
It is all about the light 