Plants
This gallery covers flowers, plants and trees.
Perhaps the best description and illustration of trees I have seen is in Thomas Pakenham's marvellous book 'Meetins with Remarkable Trees'. Here he describes trees as 'living (or dying) monuments' and his book is essentially one of British tree portraits.
To browse this book is to understand so much about why trees offer so much to the image maker. Personality, history, form, colour, evolution - everything is here.
On a different scale, smaller plants and flowers can offer much of these same qualities.
From a photographic point of view, there is enormous scope - whether the aim is to portray the whole plant or to focus in on some minute detail where pattern, texture and colour are at their most intense.
Perhaps the best description and illustration of trees I have seen is in Thomas Pakenham's marvellous book 'Meetins with Remarkable Trees'. Here he describes trees as 'living (or dying) monuments' and his book is essentially one of British tree portraits.
To browse this book is to understand so much about why trees offer so much to the image maker. Personality, history, form, colour, evolution - everything is here.
On a different scale, smaller plants and flowers can offer much of these same qualities.
From a photographic point of view, there is enormous scope - whether the aim is to portray the whole plant or to focus in on some minute detail where pattern, texture and colour are at their most intense.
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