Location: United Kingdom
I want to challenge the nature of visual reality. My images are of things that never happened. They are all figments of the imagination - either mine or yours.
Here you will find images of spaceships, sailing boats, fields, deserts and mountains. But they are all photographs of flowers; and they haven't been manipulated. I would like you to draw your own conclusions about what they mean.
I have three websites: www.wild-haven.co.uk; www.wildhaven.co.uk; and www.wildhavenimages.co.uk. I would be glad to see you there!
Reflections on Life
An Allegory on Global Heating
All images are abstract, high-magnification images of flowers, almost all of them Orchids
“Spacecraft Approaching Encelada”
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis". Taken looking into occlude sunlight, to create contrast.
“A Trace upon the Fabric of Time”
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis". The image was taken looking into the light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into occluded light.
“A Painted Ship upon a Painted Ocean (Conrad)”
A very-high magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into afternoon sunlight.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into occluded light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into strongly-occluded sunlight.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into the light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into strongly-occluded sunlight.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into the light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into occluded light.
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into the light.
“Through Flowery Meadows up to Distant Clouded Mountains”
A high-magnification image of the wild flower "Meadow Cranesbill" (Geranium pratense).
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into the light.
“Young Stars Exciting their Parent Cloud”
A high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis', taken looking into the light. The title derives from a frequent occurrence in Star-Formation. A cloud of hydrogen collapses partially, and produces a cluster of young stars. (This is on the left). Some of these stars are likely to be very hot, emitting X-rays. The remainder of the hydrogen cloud in on the right, and is being irradiated by the X-rays coming from the stars. Hydrogen, when irradiated with X-rays produces a pink-purple glow.
Global Heating: Episode 1. A merciless sun has been scorching the parched Earth.
The image is a high-magnification photograph of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into sunlight.
Global Heating: Episode 2: A violent dawn breaks, with dark clouds and black hills.
The image is a high-magnification photograph of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into occluded sunlight.
Global Heating: Episode 3: From the lowering clouds there is a sudden bolt of lightning.
The image isa high-magnification photograph of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
Global Heating: Episode 4. The Lightning strike has produced a flame.
The image is a high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
Global Heating: Episode 5. The Earth is both hot and dry. The single flame is now a fire.
The image is a high-magnification image of the Orchid "Dendrobium", taken looking into occluded light.
Global Heating: Episode 6. For the very few, escape is possible.
The image is a high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
Global Heating: Episode 7. For those that are left there is nothing but conflagration and ruin . . . .
The image is a high-magnification image of the Orchid " Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
Global Heating: Episode 8. . . . followed by an angry, pitying twilight.
The image is a high-magnification photograph of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into the light.
Global Heating: Episode 9. Everything has been destroyed . . . . but a New Dawn Breaks.
The Image is a high-magnification image of the Orchid "Phalaenopsis", taken looking into afternoon sunlight.
“Scissors, Rock, Paper”
“Returning”
“Ephemera”
“At the Volcano's edge.”
“Figure in the Marble”
“The Gondola”
“Twisted”
“Dawn on a Distant Hillside”
“Bridge over the Sea at Dawn”
“Predator”
“Scorching Sun”
“Savage Dawn”
“A Strike”
“A Flame”
“Fire”
“Lucky Escape”
“Conflagration and Ruin”
“Fiery Twilight”
“A NewDawn Breaks”
