"The Secret Life of Plants" is a series of photographs about that part of flowering plants that we often fail to see because it is too small or we pass by it without paying attention. This may be because blooming flowers have more appeal to us than flowers that show other splendour in the autumn of their lives. It is a series of very close-up photos, so-called macro photos that have been edited.
Like a spent straw flower that makes for beautiful pictures as the seed fluff is released and carried away with the wind. A fascinating thing to see a flower change from a sunny summer bloomer for attracting bees and other insects through its fragrance and beautiful yellow and orange colours, to a look befitting autumn.
The photo has been digitally manipulated to enhance the dynamics of the lint being released into the picture. The distortion emphasised constant change the flower is undergoing, which has a beauty all its own that we often overlook and can only be captured briefly in the picture.
Note, parts of the photo have been deliberately blurred or made out of focus to enhance the three-dimensionality of the flower. The nice thing about these fluffy flowers is that they detach just the opposite way to what we know from the dandelion.
Specialized in landscapes and nature, especially in the Netherlands. The Veluwe forests and the waterfront are common subjects, sometimes with the contrast of nature and human traces. Preferably photographed in the early morning or late evening, and under weather conditions that enhance the photograph... Read more…