tell me about it, Stefano....my friends are moving to Jersey or Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island....they cant even afford apartments in the Bronx(very gentrified now but large buildings)....I was lucky to have a roomate who graduated and moved to Texas and left me this rent controlled rent stabilized one bedroom in a Bauhaus building in the Village.....heh

So delicately pretty.

Thank You for the vist and your kind comment, Rosie !

Just ran across these bud. Congratulations. Very pretty. I love white. Diaphanous whites to be sure. Very lovely. Wish I were closer. I'd shoot this with my 8x10 in black and white. Give you a nice print.

Thank You James! you gave me an idea...its still in bloom=I will ake some black and whites ; lets see how it goes

Use film. Use decent lighting. Use a medium format camera if you can rent or have a friend who has one. If not a 105mm lens on a 35mm will work wonders. I'm drooling because of the subject matter. I am a photographer. I shoot large format cameras and use film. I have my own darkroom and flowers are my favorite subject matter. Wish I still had a website. You can go to usefilm.com and find my portfolio under james mickelson. It's just a small one but that's what I do. I don't print on a pc and printer. Film and silver paper are my tools.

Sorry, James....I am not a photographer. I dont know how to use film. I can take black and white photos with my digital cam and I use an SD card that I load to photoshop to crop it and size it....your methods of photography is too ambitious for me....I am just a dabbler and started photographing my orchids from an iPhone....a digital cam is one little step to archiving my plants....a black and white film processed in a photolab is way out of my league

Bud, look up Ron Van Dongen. You'll love his images of flowers.

to do BW in digital better shoot raw and then turn it in BW in post rather than relying to a camera's pre cooked algorhytm.

Huh!!?? Just kidding. I don't shoot digital except to show my orchids here. Digital is way way beyond my skills. I used to try and scan my film to digital and then print from files. I gave up. All you younger folks are so much better at this than old fogeys like me. For color I think digital platform was made for it. Nothing beats a good digital color print. But I digress.