Evolving PeonyEvolving Peony

Evolving Peony

The Flourishing Flowers Gallery came about when I was taking the sequel class to Flower Portraits taught by Kathleen Clemons. I had been studying and experimenting with Intentional camera movement a few months previous to Kathleen's class.

There is beauty in seeing the character of a flower and bringing out that uniqueness in a portrait. There is for me an excitement in taking that further by expressing how I feel and interact with what is in front of me through intentional camera movement. It is pulling the colors and light across the sensor, in other words painting with the camera movements. Flowers have a vibrancy and life of their own which I can see and connect to. The ICM shows that vibrancy by the very movements it captures and creates. 

Flourishing OrchidFlourishing Orchid

Flourishing Orchid
 

I was in love with studying flowers especially their brief existence and the changes which occur. Flowers are a metaphor of the human life. I read somewhere that someone was told to photograph an individual flower for 30 days. Imagine planting a seed and nourishing its' growth. The bloom and then the wilting that occurs with the loss of petals. Wabisabi photography follows flourishing flowers or as I titled this blog Flourishing and Fading Flowers. Wabisabi is a Japanese concept which accepts the transience and imperfection found in nature. This beauty is found in the old, imperfect and everyday. Everything is in a state of transition from something to nothing. I ask myself is there actually nothing?

Still a RoseStill a Rose

Still a Rose

Still a RoseStill a Rose

Fading Roses

Still a RoseStill a Rose

Dissipating Roses

Even the prettiest flower will die one day. Its nature's way of teaching us that nothing lasts forever.-unknown

Flowers whisper "Beauty" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.-Dr. Sunwolf

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions-so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small is size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect"-Terri Guillemets

To view the gallery please click here Flourishing Flowers Gallery. Please feel free to comment and ask any questions.