SLUG Magazine

I’ve always enjoyed photographing flowers. Whether in botanical gardens, walking though local neighborhoods, or when traveling overseas, the brilliant variety of flowers attracts me. A straight flower photograph can be a thing of beauty: colorful, full of sharp detail, perhaps with an accompanying insect…usually a happy, straightforward portrait of nature. In 2013 I traveled to Monet’s Garden outside Paris. I walked into the gardens and immediately began photographing the riot of floral colors much as I always had. But then…