I am endlessly inspired by flowers. (Is that painfully obvious?) By the way they look, naturally, but also by the way they feel — I received some of these in a recent delivery from my husband and I couldn’t stop touching them — I went back for a few more stems that had unique sensory experiences.

Once I got back home, I set up a simple black backdrop with some light rigging for the stems. I wanted to hone the focus on the flowers and their movement — and nothing else.