Tom Hennessy

Monochrome Tulip Study

Digital Photography

15" x 12" Unframed

21" x 18" x 1" Framed

$175

Honorable Mention, Photography

I photographed some very nice yellow tulips, and for this one I looked for fine detail of the stamen and pistil. I then converted it to black and white for  subtle high key image.

Artist Statement

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” Georgia O’Keefe “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” Amy Lowell

These quotations are not from photographers, but from a painter and a poet. My approach to photography is very much influenced by writers, poets and painters, and I especially love the work of Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Weston. I want the beauty of the natural world to be captured in my photos and I want to show the details that we easily overlook in daily life. It is common to see flowers in a garden, and there is much to admire in a well laid out garden. But, to me, the essence is in often in the details of the individual flowers - the slowly opening petals of a rose; the colors and flair of a calla lily blossom; the dewdrops on the petals of a dahlia. These are the images that excite me to make my photographs.