Natural forms leaves

Bored one afternoon, I noticed how interesting the shapes and colors were on my poinsettia plant as it's leaves change from the traditional Christmas red to a crisp green. I first tried to capture the leaves using traditional macro photography, but was uninspired by the results, then I thought about using my scanner, with the transparency adapter to scan the leaves, this got me excited. From a single leaf to a whole series of groupings composited in Photoshop and printed fairly large, this…

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black and white photography

Seeing isn’t always believing. Though most of what your eyes see actually exists, it’s getting incredibly easy for graphic artists to generate computer images that look like real life. And sometimes, what is real is too beautiful for anyone to ever believe! Have you ever looked at a sunset and thought that it wasn’t actually happening? Or have you ever played a video game and found it hard to believe that the graphics were not from real life? It happens to all of us. Perception is not always…

Fresh from garden collard green leaf with vein pattern closeup texture.