Peony Pollen Wood Print

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"Peony Pollen"

A close-up photograph of a pink Japanese peony flower from my garden, in full bloom in the sunshine, dusted with brilliant yellow pollen. Other then a tiny edge crop and minimal adjustment to black and white levels and exposure, this is exactly the way this image came from my DSLR, I did not increase the saturation of the color. Isn't the brilliant yellow of the pollen just phenomenal? I just love it against the contrasting vivid pink of the petals. Please see my Contemporary Botanicals to see more of my floral photography.

This image was honored by being featured in the following outstanding gallery groups at Fine Art America:
Women Photographers
All Natural Beauty of This World
All Flowers
Flowers from Our Gardens
Exploration Photography
Fine Arts Professionals
Floral Photography and Art
Flower Mania
First Friday Gallery Group
Thoughts of Flowers
Fine Nature Photography
Dreamland
Macro World
Flow...

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...