Swirl Like Water

Swirl Like Water

More and more when I go out searching for flowers and plants to photograph its about my seeing the potential of items and bringing it out than finding the perfect flower.

And usually those items produce far more interesting final prints than that "perfect" flower.

Point in fact yesterday at Tagawa Gardens I picked up two crazy-looking air plants.  The name Google provided was Xerographica, a cluster of odd pale greenish gray tendrils.  They're hang suspended in my  loft on the same hooks that held my begonias at the first of the summer.  And when moved into the sun they illustrate a play of light and shadow in the swirls of the tendrils in pastels of grey and green, blue and maroon.

Like currents in the ocean almost...

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