In 2008, I took a series of photographs of a wild, dense but fragile Queen Anne’s Lace by a local pond. I photographed it at sunrise, sunset, for many months. They did not survive the subsequent winters but my photographs have. I always thought they needed a painter more than a photographer so in 2014, for the first time, I have experimented with putting some textures on them. They seem to inch closer to what I saw in my mind’s eye but not in my lens. I am looking forward to learning more about texture blending on some of my photos that may be the beginning of a painting rather than a straight photograph. Not all subjects need apply but Queen Anne’s Lace seemed a perfect place to start.
