Flora Portfolio

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Echeveria Garden
Echeveria and Leaves, Sonoma County, CA
Spider Leaf Pattern
Bullet Echeveria
Veratrum californicum - California Corn Lily
Fern Stems and Leaves
Ferns, Armstrong Redwoods 
Fern Patterns
Echeveria Cluster
Agave, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
Echeveria, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Twin Echeveria
Fittonia Argyroneura, San Fransisco, CA
Leaves and Drops, Yosemite National Park CA
Hosta Leaf Patterns
Mushrooms on Log, Yosemite National Park, CA


Flora Portfolio

I have been mostly a landscape photographer, but another subject I really like are leaves and succulents. They have such character, with patterns and textures that are very interesting to me. I first saw wonderful black and white photographs of leaves and succulents in a book of Brett Weston images. His leaves had an almost silver-like look to me that I had to check the paper the page with the image was on to be sure it wasn’t coated with a silver covering. Then I got a book of photographs by Don Wirth, that had amazing images of succulents. I think it is the contrast and detail of the images I saw that made them so unbelievable to me. I started looking for interesting patterns and textures and shapes in the leaves and succulents and cactus I found and wanted to make my own images of them.