pressed flower photography

Here’s a sneak peek at my soldered glass frames. I hope to do a small blog post on them in the near future. The process of soldering for me is daunting and intimidating so I’ll take it in bits and pieces.

While still a work in progress, they look much better than the previous batch so I'm grateful with the outcome.

My recycled paper book that I thrifted. I use it specifically to store my pressed flowers.

A leather-bound book that I received from my dear old friend for my 34th birthday.

And by old I mean that respectfully, of course. Anyone who has made it through this mad for 86 years deserves all of the praise.

While I have an array of different flowers that I picked and pressed through last summer, I think I will take it just one page at a time because pressed flower photography is beautiful and undervalued. There is so much texture and such an antiquated quality to be derived from pressed flowers.

I may have gone overkill on the pictures. Then again, maybe not. While working with a macro and trying to stretch as far back as possible some of the flowers in the frame cut off. So in some pictures I had to compromise texture for composition, and vice versa. Thusly, all of the pictures made it into this post because they all contribute in their own unique way.