JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

This is a body of work I started about 20 years ago, and recently went back to as part of a project to print my best photos. They are composites of two or three photos of flowers. The first two were from the early '00s, which I tweaked some more to print. That inspired me to try to create some more, and I just made the third one from two old flower photos. I was looking for a subject with very colorful organic forms to combine, and flowers fit the bill perfectly. I'm looking for a balance of realism and abstraction. I feel like when it works the images have more "flowerness" than single shots. Also, it's just a great way to get more flowers in the image. I generally combine the images in "lighten" mode so the brightest parts of each layer show through. Then I can further control it by lightening or darkening portions of each layer to determine what shows through.

cyan Loc: Northern NJ

I really like what you've done!

R.G. Loc: Scotland

It would be hard to think of anything that said "flowery" more than these. I'm wondering if you've tried taking the PP more into the abstraction side - for instance softening the images detail-wise without weakening the colours.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I like to keep the detail so they are recognizable as a photographic vision, just a little scrambled.

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

I don't usually comment of flower images, but I find these to be particularly beautiful and unusual. Good work.