Florals (149 images)

I bet most everyone who's ever owned a camera has tried to photograph a flower or two. With their incredible diversity of colors, shapes, structures and textures, who can resist such sexy subjects? (And sexy is exactly the right word - botanically, flowers are reproductive organs, after all.)
Artistically, there are two basic ways to approach a flower. There's a field guide approach vs. the fine art approach, the literal vs. the abstract. Both approaches to floral photography are...
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I bet most everyone who's ever owned a camera has tried to photograph a flower or two. With their incredible diversity of colors, shapes, structures and textures, who can resist such sexy subjects? (And sexy is exactly the right word - botanically, flowers are reproductive organs, after all.)
Artistically, there are two basic ways to approach a flower. There's a field guide approach vs. the fine art approach, the literal vs. the abstract. Both approaches to floral photography are represented in this Gallery.
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