Scanners, Flowers and Art

Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward is a supporter and good friend of UBC Botanical Garden (as an example, he donated his photographic talents as an item for the garden's recent Collectors' Plant Auction).

Alex has recently written an engaging article in The Tyee called Getting Rid of the Box. The piece details Alex's discovery and subsequent use of a flatbed scanner in producing digital images, accompanied with a brief history of photography and a small photo gallery of his work.

Links:

• Getting Rid of the Box


• Striking Images of Nature - UBC Botanical Garden weblog entry on the scanner art of Katinka Matson


• Epimedium davidii scanned by Douglas Justice of UBC Botanical Garden


• Epimedium dolichostemon also scanned by Douglas Justice

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:03 AM on July 8, 2004

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