Falling Flowers I & II
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This series is about looking at flowers not as one thing or the other — alive or dead, fresh or dried — but as something moving between those states at all times. I worked with a mix of fresh and dried statice, dried roses, and falling petals, shooting them against both interior architecture and outdoor settings, trying to catch each one somewhere in the middle of its transformation rather than at a fixed point.
The Lensbaby lens did most of the conceptual work here. Its selective focus meant I could isolate one small sharp point — a single bloom, a cluster of petals — while everything else dissolved into blur around it. That felt like the right way to talk about decay without making it feel sad or final. It's more about zooming into the in-between moments, the ones that usually get skipped over between "blooming" and "dead."
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Shot on a combination of Kodak Gold 200 and Revolog Rasp. Gold 200 gave the more grounded, warm-toned shots their color accuracy, while Rasp added raspberry-colored chemical light leaks that layered an organic, slightly unstable quality on top of the botanical subjects.
The main tool was the Lensbaby Composer Pro II with the Sweet 50 optic, shot mostly at f/2.5. That lens has a ball-and-socket system that lets you physically tilt the focal plane, so instead of a flat sharp/blurry line, you get a small sweet spot of clarity that shifts depending on how the lens is angled. I used that to guide attention across dried bouquets and scattered petals, keeping the 50mm perspective close to natural while still getting that dreamlike falloff at the edges. Combined with Rasp's unpredictable light leaks, a lot of these frames ended up somewhere between documentation and abstraction — recognizable, but not quite steady.
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Model | Audrey Simper
HMUA | Roxanna Monica Alexandru -
Whim Magazine (2015)
