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November 14, 2006 : The Art of Elisabeth Feldman
Keywords: Digital Art
Elisabeth Feldman, aka hurleygurley@Flickr submitted today's photograph via the BPotD Flickr Group Pool (original image). While I very much appreciate viewing photographs of plants without scientific names in the Flickr group pool, it generally makes it difficult for me to use them on BPotD (I need to ID them, which takes time I often don't have). On very few occasions, though, the requirement of a scientific name can be set aside when an exceptional body of work exists and I can post under the BPotD category Botanical Art. Elisabeth's photography and digital art easily meets the criterion of an exceptional body of work.
Of Elisabeth's nearly 1400 photographs on Flickr, many have a botanical theme. If you want to concentrate on her botanical work instead of discovering them by happy circumstance while browsing through all of her photographs, Elisabeth makes it very easy – she's organized her photographs into over a hundred photo sets. My personal favourite is this one: BW & Duotone Botanica, but there are many others with a botanical theme, including: Natural Scenes - Cream of the Stream, Autumn 2006, Nature Up Close - Cream of the Stream, Jes Flowers, Natural Details, everything but the flowers, fairyland, Fungi!, Liking Lichen, Macroscapes and blossfeldt inspired - a subset.
Instead of me trying to describe her art and failing, Elisabeth's approach to photography is better described by her in her Flickr bio or her Utata bio.
Many thank yous for contributing to BPotD, Elisabeth.
Photography resource link: While browsing through Elisabeth's work, I learned she was a member of Utata, “a collective of photographers, writers, and like-minded people who share a compelling interest in the arts”. Visit the site and overdose on creativity – my first impression was that it is one of those top-tier photography sites where one can spend a lot of time learning from the quality work of others. As one example, while reading through the articles, I came across Transcending Photography, an interview with Maureen Shaughnessy, who you will recognize (if you've a good memory) as a frequent BPotD contributor, MontanaRaven@Flickr.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at November 14, 2006 12:00 AM
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Posted by: christian STAEBLER at November 14, 2006 7:12 AM
Daniel -- I'm happy to see you have discovered one of my very very favorite flickr friends, Elisabeth Feldman -- and, that you featured her on BPOTD so eloquently. Elisabeth is humble about her incredible abilities, yet she has such keen insight into the natural world, and a willingness to experiment with her photos. Her finely honed artistic vision results in beautiful, intimate portraits of Nature.
Posted by: Maureen at November 14, 2006 9:03 AM
I think the woody tendrils in the upper right are some kind of grape. The lower right could be a cucurbit, but really it's pretty generic. The other two look like they might be distinctive, but I don't recognize them.
Posted by: Vasha at November 14, 2006 1:41 PM
I too believe shots to be of grape vine tendrils.
Posted by: Guy Webb at February 6, 2007 1:50 PM
I can't say how grateful I am to have my botanical work highlighted here. Obviously it's a passion and to have my passion appreciated in the way I intend is extraordinarily nourishing and encouraging.
Thank you, many times over,
Elisabeth Feldman
(i'll try in the future to be better about names. I've got my book next to computer now and I've been learning how to identify these wonders I find!)
Posted by: Elisabeth Feldman at February 27, 2007 7:52 PM
Btw, most of the finer tendrils are likely either sweat pea vines or clematis. Thicker ones are probably passeflower vines! No grapes around here.
Elisabeth
Posted by: Elisabeth Feldman at March 1, 2007 11:11 AM
They are cis and trans models of fatty acids and cholesetol and other steroid stereomolecules
and plantsterols or wire models of faulty crystal classes or a coming out of a secret art nouveau jugendstil secessionist admirer of curlicues and tendrils and lepidopteral antennae.
Posted by: Alexander Jablanczy at November 14, 2007 3:12 AM
the slide show was amazing. can't wait to see what's around the bend.
Posted by: botanical art at January 15, 2008 8:36 AM
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I like the slideshow BW & Duotone very much. It's exactly the kind of photos I would be glad being able to realize myself. Makes me think of Blossfeldt in the approach of details. It's sensitive, full of emotions and inspiring…