Still Life Flora

I was inspired this weekend to play with controlled light in still life photography. I went downstairs and bought some flowers (a stressful experience - the number of times I've bought flowers in my life that wasn't a last-second purchase to be immediately handed off to my mother or another deserving female is exactly zero), spent hours setting up the lights and tweaking the arrangements. Below are a few examples.

Christmas Family Portraits

At Christmas this year we had a larger than usual family gathering. I took the opportunity to do individual portraits of each. Here are a few of the ones I liked the best.