12 November

Flower Art, Tuesday, November 2, 2024. O’Keeffe’s White Flower No. 1. My Search For The Sole Of A Rose

by Jon Katz
Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her many flower paintings. Still, Jimson/Weed White Flower No. 1 is one of her most famous and expensive works: This 1932 oil painting was sold to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2014 for $44.4 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold by a female artist at the time. It was previously displayed in the White House.
(Jimson Weed/ White Flower No 1,  by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1932, oil. This photo changed flower photography for all time.)
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My camera is involved in two art forms tonight, one for the pantry and the other for flowers, and it’s exciting. We’ll see how it goes. I love trying new things.

Tonight, join me through the rose with my new macro lens. I’m loving it so far, and I hope it has some meaning to the people following it. I’ll turn to some of the archives that worked well as we enter winter. I have enough to last a good long while. My Lightroom Editing program isn’t working, and it might be a while before I can fix it.

I’ll have to do my editing, which will be fun and good.

I will see you in the morning after my weekly Zoom Meeting with blog readers.

 

I love the depth of color and feeling this new lens has brought me.

I also love the detail this lens captures. It takes me right inside the flower’s heart, and I’m enchanted by it.

Miniature roses touch big hearts.

Here, the sun is a guest at a party in the park.

She was sounding the horn.

Calla magic.

 

Sunflowers, each in their own way.

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