Irises

Dahlias

Gladiolus

Lilies

Hibiscus

runway model concerning Alexander McQueen with model as an iris decaying and obscured by edits

But a Question Travels

This project began in 2019 during a period of frustration with my work. I wanted to move beyond the typical images found in the genre of botanical work. One afternoon I happened to open Hiro's book "Fighting Fish, Fighting Birds" and decided to challenge myself by seeing if I could tweek a personality from a flower as he had done with his beta fish and birds.

The result as been a continual move into more experimentation in camera work and in editing. Typically,
 I shoot in daylight with no backdrops or lighting other than sunlight. Then, like a sculptor chiseling marble, I strip away everything until I arrive at the image.

Runway

Sound Track of the Revolution is an iris photographed at the Minnesota Arboretum in Chaska

Sound Track of the Revolution

Merciful Laughter Intervened

The Sounds of Someone Trying to Play It

Kachina (1)

Kachina (3)

Kachina (2)

Penetrate the Magical

You Are Where You Are

Text of a Heart

Another

Burn Daylight

Fallible Gods with Broken Hearts

Turn Carefully Facing Southeast

Length of a Sigh

reflections, distortions and otherwise

Flesh has Soul

Luck of the Draw

The Mystery is in Your Eye

Paradox of Questions

Dispositions

The Conversation of Dreams

Another Human Interest Story

Waterloo

Here & Beyond

"And All at Once"
Dahlia from Katherine and Leo's garden! 

Just chosen for the "Gardenia 2023" online exhibit "Exihibizone". Biararin, a Canadian Artist Management company is sponsoring the show July 1 -Aug 31. Will post a link when it opens.
(10 artists work will also be presented in their 2 magazines.
Image is 4 sale - multiple sizes available starting at $45 - $$$ and really pretty big at that end. (check my bio for a link)

Another winner @roepkepr !
@dahliahillsociety @dahlia.societyy 
@frankmeuschke (thought you might like this one - latest in my awards page on the website -- )
#dahlias #dahliaseason 
#dahlialove #dahlia 
#dahliasofinstagram #redflower 
#dahliasofinsta #summerlove

Dahlias 3 Ways 
from the garden at Katherine and Leo's

Happy Mothers Day to all my mother friends....

#happymothersday #mothersday #dahlia @roepkepr 
@dahliahillsociety @dahlia.societyy #dahlias 
#dahliaseason #motherlove

From a series of 3 images that are now found in the Four Seasons Dubai Financial Center

thanks @artlinkinc #moonflowers 
#moonflower #datura #flowersofinstagram 
#flowersoftheday

"Words & Sentences in this Winter of Disbelieve"

Elm tree at the Roepke Furcht residence.

@roepkepr 
@minneapolisparks @mspmag 
@parksmpls #elm #tree #forestphotography #minnesota
#autumn #treesofinstagram 
#minneapolis #fallcolors 
#culturedforest #bestforestmoods 
#moody

I'm working the same image -  I want to see what happens when I just keep experimenting....
Dahlia.
From Katherine and Leo's garden!!

@roepkepr #dahlia #dahliasofinstagram 
#artphotography #dahlias #dahlias
#color photography

I keep asking myself what climate change looks like -- not the huge calving of glaciers or huge potholes in the tiaga.  Something simplier and closer to home.

dahlia from katherine and leo's garden...

@roepkepr @dahliahillsociety
@dahlia.societyy #dahliasofinstagram
#climatechange #minnesota #gardens
#redflowers

Sometimes ya just have to post because it reminds you of a pal
'
@roepkepr

NINE dot ARTS just picked me up as another horse in their stable.
I'm pretty happy as Burnet closed and I need another gallery representing me. This is good. NINE does a lot of corporate work. And hell, yes, I want to see my work in some entrance to a corp.... like how about fed reserve? 
ps thanks NdA!

@ninedotarts 
#corporateart #corporateartbuyer 
#artbusinesstips #newartwork 
#cannalily #cannalilylove
#cannalilyflower 
#livelovelaugh

Iris from the "Here & Beyond" series.
And here is a link to my 50 images that have won awards...

https://www.cynthiadickinson.com/award-26-exhibit-photographs

"Bound"
Breakups always seem to require art is produced in the throws of cast out love... 
this one sold to Artlink, inc who used it in their newly built hotel/bar/restaurants all over the world.
this one is on the wall in a few bedrooms of - design by Adam Tihany.
artwork supplied by consultants with Artlink, INC. 
Work is rooms of the Four Seasons Dubai Financial Center Hotel.

@artlinkinc @tihanydesign #contemporaryart #art 
#gold #goldflower #redblossom 
#contemporaryphotography 
#designdeinteriores 
#blossoms

Iris from the "Here & Beyond" series. 
from the MN Arb iris garden.

@mn_arb @mnmuseum @mnartists
#iris #irisesofinstagram #flowersofinstagram #irises #colorphotography #purple
#purpleiris #circuslife

"More than Enough Sky in the Doorway"
From Katherine Roepke and Dr. Leo Furcht dahlia gardens. 
Summer is coming!
Did you all know I now have a much better website and I'm selling my work for much better prices. 
link to the site in my bio.
(and thank you all for holding up the art sky!)

@roepkepr @mnartists @mnmuseum 
@tihanydesign @artlinkinc 
#dahlia #dahlias #dahliaseason 
#dahlialove #dahliasofinstagram 
#silverthreads #silver #skyblue 
#mygarden #edinaartist #minnesotalife

"57 Letters"
Dahlia from the gardens at Katherine Roepke and Dr. Leo Furcht's gardens in Minneapolis. 
Watch for more work this season!

@roepkepr @dahliahillsociety 
@americandahliasociety, @dahlia.societyy #dahlias 
#dahliasofinstagram #redcolors 
#loveontherun #lovelife

Learning the Names but Forgetting the Songs

17th Annual Julia Cameron Awards
Honorable Mention for a Series in Nature

16th Annual Pollux Awards
Honorable Mention for a Series in Nature

Sunflower from the George Floyd memorial garden that was in North Mpls after the murder of Floyd. I spent the summer photographing the sunflowers. its like that garden was helping me process a lot of things about myself, death, racism, tolerance, etc.

#georgefloyd #edinaartist #sunflower #sunflowers #sunflowersofinstagram 
#gardensofinstagram 
#gardensoftheworld 
#death #memento 
#momentomori #breath
#lifedeath #longmarch
#onelove #reserection

Boreal
Photographed somewhere out in the deep bush of Cook County, MN. 
Another fine forest service road kicking up lots of dust as I drove that dirt road.

#boreal #borealforest #finlandminnesota #forestservice
#forestserviceroad #edinaartist
#forest #forestphotography 
#forestlover

Funny thing happens when some of us redesign our websites.
We start looking at older work not already on it.
And lo and behold.
You find images that slipped outta sight/site.
This peony is from Cara Olsen's garden in Edina - photographed the first year of covid.

new website? cynthiadickinson.com
check it out!

#peony #peonyseason #peoniesofinstagram #peonies 
#pink #bestflowerspics 
#pinkflower #pinkflowers
#loveontherun #colorphotography 
#colorphotographyoftheday 
#flowersofinstagram 
#floweroftheday

Virgin Pine
7 Pines Lodge 
Lewis, WI.
They actually are virgin pine. charles lewis bought the property to save them and they are still standing last I looked.
My dad and I used his increment borer to find the ages of them
They were seedlings during the civil war.

@7pines #outinglodge #lewiswisconsin #whitepine
#virginpine #pineforest 
#fallcolors #bestforestmood
#forest #forestlovers
#forestsofinstagram

Latest news on the photography front.

This image has been chosen by Sarah Weiss for "The Shadow Aspect" show at Praxis Gallery in Mpls.
Opens My 20th!
Thanks to Praxis and Sarah Weiss
Smith foundry image - ductile iron casting.

@praxis_gallery @camerahead @smithfoundrympls 
#ironcasting #smithy #metalcasting #portraitphotography
#portrait #colorphotography #hotmetal #ductileiron

Smith Iron Foundry

@smithfoundrympls #ironcasting 
#foundry #hotmetal #bwphotography 
#bwoftheday #bw #photooftheday 
#smithy #iron #metalcasting

Stuntz Bay Historic Boathouses at Lake Vermillion, Tower-Soudan, MN.
Turn of the century Soudan Mine gave the employees permission to build boathouses with mine scrap. And they did. 143 boathouses are there.

#ironmine #soudanmine #cabinlife #boathouses #fishing #boating
#historicarchitecture #historicbuildings #exploreminnesota

new work
untitled
from Katherine and Leo's dahlias...and oh are they beautiful!

@roepkepr @dahliahillsociety 
@dahliasday #dahlia #dahliaseasonishere 
#dahliasofinstagram 
#contemporaryphotography 
#bestflowerspics 
#loveontherun

State Fair Booth 
Roseville, MN

#statefair #statefairmn #mnstatefair 
#stuffedanimal #stuffedanimalsofinstagram 
#blackandwhitephotography 
#bw #bwphotography 
#bwphotooftheday 
#minnesota #exploremn 
#minnesotalife

My dad died 8 years ago today. I miss him. All the time. At the most unexpected times. This part of the eulogy I wrote for him
"We have never heard nor seen so many grown men cry at your passing....so many people cry. I've want to stand inside their sorrow and grief to stroke it gently and whisper my dad's love for us all still exists in each and every one of us if we just stay still and listen for it. 
He now speaks the language of water and waves. 
The language of wind through a stand of pines. 
The language of blades of skates scratching ice during an Ice Mice hockey game. 
The language of a sugar maple dripping sap in an empty bucket. 
The language of trees and plants sprouting roots on a tailings pond.
The language of a paddle dipping into water and the language of a canoe hitting waves.
The language of a flat stone skipping on Lake Superior.
The language of a handshake between Masons.
The language of a chain saw and a tree.
The language of a sweet silent nights and bright constellations.
The language of sunrises and sunsets and warm sunshine and rainstorms and thunder and snowfall.
The language of agates, amethyst, basalt, jasper, thomsonite, chert, petrified wood, iron, copper.
The language of white red scotch and jack pines, spruce, balsam, aspen, sugar maple, oak and every seedling growing roots.
The language of friendships and wilderness.
The language of prayer in a church.
The language of family"

You, Dad, have become the language of the universe around us and inside us.
You have become the language of love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, helping and giving, listening and comfort. 
Your language is heard every moment each of us takes a stand to make the world a better place for others. Because your so wide path through life was always steps of determination to change our world into something better."

Last two images from the 19th Annual Pollux Awards.
Penetrate the Magical
Merciful Laughter Intervened
Both images photographed at the MN Landscape Arboretum.
Thanks to the all those folks at the Arb who work to give me loads of colors, textures, lines, mass, all giving me opportunities to create images I am quite happy to show others.
Thanks to the Fotonostrum folks for all their work for the awards!
@fotonostrum @mn_arb 
#irises #irisesofinstagram #iris
#fineartphotography #finearts 
#loveintime #colorphotography
#gardening #mnartist 
#mnartists #edinaartist 
#petals #blossoms #springflowers 
#springflowersmakemehappy

Kachina
19th Annual Pollux Award
Honorable Mention for a Series in Fine Art
Fotonostrum Gallery
Barcelona, Spain

@fotonostrum @zenfolio 
#irises #irisesofinstagram 
#luxelife #petals 
#kachina #dancing 
#dancer #lifelove

Pow Wow Fancy Dancer

@powwowscom #fancydancer #powwow #powwowlife #dance 
#ndn

Reflections. Distortions. And Otherwise.
Image #3 of the Pollux Awards -
Honorable Mention for a Series in Fine Art.
Its in a Project I did with mostly Irises, dahlias. The story behind this project began with Joe Giannetti letting me study with him - he fast became my very good friend and my most excellent mentor--which he does. The winter before these sprang into existness I was very frustrated with my work. I couldn't tell my images from many many other floral photographers work. Joe kept working with me and opening my sight so to speak. One day I opened the Hiro book "Fighting Fish, Fighting Birds". The fish had personality--and I could spot his work out of many beta fish. So I challenged myself. Start shooting and look for the "personality". One day I showed Joe some of the new work and I heard "you hit the mark, Cynthia". That's Joe telling me the image is really good.
Thus began this project. I'm hoping to find a lot of irises this spring to photograph -- the project is still moving forward...
If you live in the Twin Cities area and have irises. Are willing to let me in the garden, please DM me! I will make sure you have a print of the work!

@instablooms #moderndecor #instaflowers @myhousebeautiful 
#iris #irisgarden #irisgardens
#floralinspiration @mn_arb 
#interiorinspirations #luxurylifestyle 
#contemporaryartcurators

Hope Still Holding
Just was one of 6 images awarded an Honorable Mention for a series in Fine Art.
19th Annual Pollux Awards juried by Stephen Perloff & Julio Hirsch-Hardy.
Exhibit will be in Barcelona at the Fotonostrumm
From the series Here & Beyond. Images from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

@fotonostrum @stephenperloff
#mnart #mnartist @mn_arb
#iris #mngarden #irisesinbloom
#beardedirisesofinstagram #luxeathome #bildhalle
#federatedgardenclubsofamerica
#betterhomesandgardens
#irisesofinstagram #mspmag

Palamino.
Just was one of 6 images awarded an Honorable Mention for a series in Fine Art.
19th Annual Pollux Awards juried by Stephen Perloff & Julio Hirsch-Hardy.
Exhibit will be in Barcelona at the Fotonostrumm
From the series Here & Beyond. Images from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

@fotonostrum @stephenperloff
#mnart #mnartist @mn_arb 
#iris #mngarden #irisesinbloom 
#beardedirisesofinstagram #luxeathome #bildhalle 
#federatedgardenclubsofamerica 
#betterhomesandgardens 
#irisesofinstagram #mspmag

Some older images - all from northern minnesota. 
Tofte Lake Center, Stuntz Bay Historic District and Crooked Lake.
All pretty close to where I grew up.

@toftelakecenter @soudanmine @tower.ndivho 
#lakevermillion #elymn #exploreminnesota 
#midwestliving #mnliving #boathouses 
#lakelife #upnorth

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