I started buying flowers on a weekly basis during this bitter northeast winter as an attempt to cheer up the office and house a little. The results were great and much more. The first week of having flowers entailed our departure for a short vacation allowing the irises I had bought to shrivel up from the dry radiator heat of our house. Upon our return, I was stunned at their beauty and the change in texture and emotional value they exuded. So I began buying, aging and studying different flowers and my favorites invariably ended up being tulips. As I continued photographing them I wanted my images to become much more intimate with expressing their changing states, so I began getting closer and closer with my macro lens. I also found that the square image was very powerful in bringing even more attention to the details of my subject and in isolating individual flowers from the bunch they belonged to. Thus a significant portion of these photographs are square. I also used my backyard’s plethora of snow as a natural white backdrop for creating many of these images. I am continuing to create more of these intimate floral images as an ongoing project.
