Rose Buds | Everlasting Beauty
"Rose Buds - Withered Beauties", is a still life photograph of dried rosebuds. The beautiful background is rice paper impregnated with flecks of dried plant material. I am pleased with…
"Rose Buds - Withered Beauties", is a still life photograph of dried rosebuds. The beautiful background is rice paper impregnated with flecks of dried plant material. I am pleased with…
Hydrangeas and Lemons is my most recent still life photographic compositions. While much effort goes into selecting and arranging the props that make up the composition my studio, a portion…
The sun rises over the Raleigh, NC skyline on a late winter's morn. Jonquils by the thousands turn toward the morning light at Dorothea Dix Park.
The morning market in Hanoi is a daily happening that gets underway well before dawn. This morning is rainy and cool but the vendors and customers are unfazed. It's all…
"My Secret Garden" is an imagined place. A place of solitude, a place for aloneness. A place to just be. To me, there are two sides to being alone. Loneliness is…
It's late afternoon in early fall at Giverny, the pastoral water garden where Claude Monet created his most famous paintings. The ambiance here is palatable with the lush beauty, peacefulness.…
The magnolias are still blooming around here and what a joy they are. When fully open they are the size of small dinner plates and they are happy to share…
There is nothing more lovely than a flower. Colorful, sensual, maybe a little erotic. Only we humans see flowers for their beauty. Nature's gift. Temporary perfection. In order to perpetuate their beauty, we buy millions of replicas made of plastic and silk. A poor substitute in my mind.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ___Henry Miller Like many of you, I am endlessly fascinated with…
A blood red amaryllis bloom basks in the late afternoon sun. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly…