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t-shirts flower spring nature pink flower floral sakura blossoms okame cherry tree branch rain limb plant pennsylvania asian

photographs flower spring nature pink flower floral sakura blossoms okame cherry tree branch rain limb plant pennsylvania asian

"Sakura Rain"

A close-up photograph of the pink sakura blossoms and striking maroon red stamens on one of the three Okamé cherry trees that I planted in the garden in front of my house when we first moved to Chester County, PA. This was taken immediately after a spring rain, just as the sun was beginning to peek from the clouds, so the flowers and leaves were still quite wet with raindrops. This photo was taken with my favorite vintage manual focus f/1.4 prime lens, which provided the beautiful bokeh background that additionally helps to evoke that rainy day feel. So what if that vintage glass is a little radioactive, we spare no risk for a good shot, amirite? AMIRITE?? Well, as long as I don't start glowing in the dark I figure I'm good. Please visit my Contemporary Botanicals art gallery to see more of the sakura flower photography I risked life and limb ("limb"... get it? ;) to take.

Awards
1.31.21 FAA "Show off That Lens Bokeh" Contest: 2nd Place (tie)

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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...