Still Life With Roses - photogravure print - The Weekly Edition

Still Life With Roses - photogravure print - The Weekly EditionI do not often make pictures of flowers. When I do find myself making a still life photograph with botanicals it is usually a result of my overwhelming desire to make work and a casual volunteer showing up in my view. I probably do not think about them as flowers but instead as feelings and visual shapes and textures. I made this negative the same day I was making tintypes of the same still life set up. Today I printed it in photogravure. This hand

As a platinum print

I was the combination of this square of grand old buildings that are home to the Royal family and this historical ritual preformed each day by the Royal Guards that interested me

in an attempt to show the beauty and awe I feel

Detail of the subject

Quiet light

This picture is part of my Objects of Beauty series that has been ongoing for a number of years

with a dash of Charbonnel Geranium red ink on Hahnemühle  Copperplate paper

and a dash of Sanguine inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

near the Panthéon

numbered and dated by the artist on the lower front

with a trace of Charbonnel sanguine ink on Rives BFK paper

I printed an edition of 8 numbered prints and  3 A/P prints