Tag: Botanical Photography
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Happy Sunflower in high key: Two Challenges of High Key Photography and How to Overcome Them
High key photography presents many challenges. In this post I discuss two, and how I overcome them.
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Spring Musings in black and white
You can use color filters to obtain the black and white image you want straight out of camera. A filter will lighten the color that is the same of its own color.
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Return to the Dogwood flower season in Sacramento (California, USA)
Every April, photographers walk the streets of Sacramento, trespassing on people’s lawns and driveways, to capture the beautiful Dogwood flowers that grow in the city gardens.
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Working in projects and series- Winter Tulip, progress report
Winter Tulip is a series showcasing the life cycle of a tulip flower, from bud to wilting.
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The African Iris flower, a beautiful example of impermanence, only lasts one day
I write about two photographs of the African Iris flower, a beautiful example of impermanence, and how I obtained them.
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The Foxtail Agave project- and a quote from Epictetus – partial conclusion
The Foxtail Agave project has come to a halt and I consider it finished for the moment.
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Fun with tomato photography in black and white
Peppers are fun to photograph and reveal interesting shapes when looked at from certain angles. In this post, I write about a few photos of these vegetables I have created, in black and white.
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The most delicate flower grows amongst the sharpest spines – Echinopsis chiloensis, a Chilean cactus
Storytelling with one photograph, cactus spines and analogies with life, photography tips: a bit of everything.
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Celebrating the sunflower season in 2023 with an image from 2021
A series of images depict parts of the radially symmetric sunflower. I then give tips on how to compose similar images.
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Zooming in the Foxtail Agave, while thinking about Marcus Aurelius and time- part two
How to free time to practice minimalist art.
It is all about the light 