Plant And Flower Close Ups,

seem an easy subject,

 but to achieve depth of field is not an easy task, as I have found out, here are some photographs from Swedish artist Helene Schmitz who focuses on the fascinating structural details of plants in her macro photographs, above “Drosera stolonifera” part of the Carnivores series, a previous series Blow Up was inspired by German photographer Karl Blossfeldt’s plant portraits, and resulted in Schmitz’s first book of plant macro photography. The artist notes that her second series, Linnaeus Project, drew from Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus’s pioneering work in creating order and categorization in the natural world, but also contributed to a pathway of modern exploitation of natural resources (Linnaeus also applied his hierarchical rankings, highly problematically, to humans), Schmitz’s showcase of the peculiar plants live on the edge of flora and fauna, Carnivores, was an assignment for National Geographic Magazine,

 “Nepenthes lowii” part of the Carnivores series

 “Papaver orientalis” part of the Blow Up series

 “Sálvia patens” part of the Linnaeus Project series

 “Venus flytrap” part of the Carnivores series

 “Cucurbita pepo 2” part of the Blow Up series

 “Musa téxtilis” part of the Linnaeus Project series

“Astilboides tabularis” part of the Blow Up series, Helene Schmitz is represented by WILLAS Contemporary in Oslo, Galerie Maria Lund in Paris, and Turn Gallery in New York, you can see Schmitz’s work in person at Fotografiska, a photography-focused Swedish museum with locations in Stockholm and Tallinn, Estonia. The museum is opening its New York branch this winter, what a stunning set of micro photographs.