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Flower

September 2010 · Create series

Single flower stem photographed close up with soft natural light, botanical illustration quality

A single stem. A piece of linen. The light from a north-facing window in the late morning. This is the whole of the image and the whole of the setup. The botanical illustration tradition is one I keep coming back to — not the clinical precision of a herbarium plate, but the slightly warmer, more painterly tradition of pressed flowers and hand-labelled drawings.

September is when I start shooting this kind of still life again after the summer. The light changes. The angle drops. What it does to a single flower, how it separates the petals from the background without any artificial intervention, is something I find myself arranging and rearranging until the frame says what I wanted it to say.

Part of the Create series. Prints available — see the prints page or email for sizes and availability. The portfolio overview and work page have more context for this and other series.

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