Blossoms of Light

We went to Denver's Botanic Gardens Blossoms of Light last night and took these photos:

Media Spotlight Monday: Chlorophyll Photography

It's spring - and I thought it would be appropriate to highlight a couple of artists using actual plant chlorophyll to make photographs:

Binh Danh, "Found Portraits Collection #7", 2006 20 x 65 inches Chlorophyll print and resin

Binh Danh, "The Leaf Effect: Study for Transmission #3", 2006 17 x 14.5 x 1.375 inches Chlorophyll print and resin

Ackroyd and Harvey, "mother & child", 1998 stay-green grass, clay, wood, 1.2m x 1.8m. 'Out of Sight: Imaging/Imagining Science' Santa Barbara Museum of Art, US.

Ackroyd and Harvey, "the sunbathers", 2000 photographic photosynthesis, stay-green grass, clay, constructed screen. 7.35m x 4.90m. Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales, UK

According to the scicult site article: ACKROYD and HARVEY: chlorophyll as a photographic medium, "Grass blades have an inherent capacity to record complex images through the production of chlorophyll, and the equivalent tonal range developed in a black and white photographic print is created within the grass in shades of green and yellow"

Instructions on the process can be found here

Found Friday : Antique Botanical Prints

I found these etchings from 1806 at an antique/junk store while in Savannah last weekend. Instead of just featuring one image I'm posting all four of my great finds.