I live in an Appalachian hollow in the Juniata watershed of central Pennsylvania, and spend a great deal of time walking in the woods. Here’s a bio. All of my writing here is available for reuse and creative remix under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For attribution in printed material, my name (Dave Bonta) will suffice, but for web use, please link back to the original. Contact me for permission to waive the “share alike” provision (e.g. for use in a conventionally copyrighted work).
such splendour in their fragility – beautiful. somehow highlighted by the way the scanner isolates them and makes them stand out.
Yes, I think so, too. An artist friend on Facebook asked me if I’d considered switching the backgrounds to black, which is easy enough to do in Photoshop, but I responded that I liked the little shadows they cast this way. And of course the white background blends right into the background here, which was my other reason.
Gorgeous, Dave! So many vivid colours. Isn’t a scanner fun?
Yes, and I must acknowledge you as my primary role model in this! Thanks.
Stunning.
Glad you liked.
Amazing. Loved seeing these!
Thanks. I’m a little abashed, frankly, that it took a project like this to get me to really stop and see them.
The beauty of imperfection!
Yes, indeed.