i’ve been receiving a lot of requests for prints of my images lately. i don’t actually sell the prints themselves, but i do sell high-res digital files that people can download and print on any surface and at any size they like. anyway, these requests strike me a as a pretty good gauge of which of my images are the most popular. i get a lot of requests for feathers, flowers, and nature assemblages, as you might imagine, and i get a surprising amount of interest in insects, but, to my ongoing perplexity, i haven’t received any requests for possibly my personal favorite nature item: seed pods. i mean, come on. they’re always interesting, sometimes beautiful, graphic, three dimensional, and varied. what’s not to love? let’s go people.
black locust seed pods
saint paul, minnesota
The Sabi is characterized by the absence of obvious beauty, beauty in the colorless, the perishable beauty, as in these pods, the ephemeral beauty