Mmm, lovely! Thanks for sharing Sharon. Very beautiful.

Another photographer I know makes flower-themed art prints using a direct positive exposure technique as follows: grab a large sheet of Agfachrome (formerly Cibachrome) color positive photographic paper, and lay flowers and such-like on top. Flattened flowers work better, and you can of course enhance their contact with the paper by laying a sheet of clear glass on top to press them closer against the surface. Expose the composition with a white light source---whatever temperature Agfachrome paper likes for white balance. Develop the "print" in the normal chemical process, and you end up with a one-off art print. The colors of the flowers and stems and leaves is transferred in the same way exposure to a transparency transfers colors via the direct positive process. Areas directly exposed to the white light come up white :^)

j a m e s

Thanks to you both. They were extra pretty.

Sharon

Beautiful photos and roses, Sharon. I love the one with all the "veins" (don't know the proper term, sorry).

In a leaf it's called venation. Not sure if there's a specific term for petals.

You're right, Haley. I looked it up and they are called veins and the pattern is called venation.

Chris, I'm tempted to riff on that, but... I've thought better of it. :-)