Pressed tulip #2 peony print roots and seeds have been

roots and seeds have been reputed to have medicinal properties and legend has it that the peony

and in the New Testament

Our physical world is in a constant state of flux

a famous Swedish botanist

My fascination when photographing flowers is observing the amazing detail within natures design

Pressed tulip #2 peony print roots and seeds have beenFrom my ongoing Memento Flores series. Flower pressing is the ancient art of preserving flowers and other botanicals between two flat surfaces until they dry. I like to think of flower pressing as a precursor to the invention of photography. The process allows us, without a camera, to capture the fleeting beauty of flowers in perpetuity. 3000 year old dried flowers have been discovered in the Egyptian pyramids. When dried flowers are photographed and