I have been taking photos now for almost 70 years. When it comes down to it, I am a photographer of shrubbery. I parlayed my love of photographing plants into three college degrees in botany, but, somehow, the science never gives me the same kind of satisfaction that the art does. I like to lift the, already startling beauty of the organic form of leaves and stems, to another level. This is what they would look like if I was the designer.

These photos are a small taste of the hand (or Photoshop) colored renditions of black and white photos that I have created over the years. I suppose they qualify as surreal even though they are reality to me.