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Seattle-based Commercial Photographer specializing in luminous imagery of products, food, people, dance, & fashion. All images & content © Bret Doss
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Posts from the ‘Floral’ category

As promised in the Calla Lily #1 post, here is the next a series of calla lily images. For this, I had a concept in mind beyond a ‘straightforward’ image of a lily.  I was surprised to find black calla lilies — I didn’t know they even…

Calla Lily #2: The Black Calla

May 11, 2016

Spring arrived right on time in Seattle, as our seasons usually do.  While I don’t have a favorite season (I love them all here), I do have favorite things about each season. One of my spring favorites is the arrival of calla lilies in the nurseries. I’ve…

Calla Lily #1

May 8, 2016

I was fortunate to have an opportunity to visit the Phoenix area earlier this year (in February, the cooler time of the year there). I lived in Phoenix before relocating to the Pacific Northwest. On those occasions I do get to return, I enjoy seeing…

Agave

August 26, 2015

When clients, guests, models, friends are coming to the studio for a shoot or meeting, I like to have some fresh flowering plants at the front door to greet them. I head over to the nursery and see what is seasonally available. Recently, I saw…

Fuschia

August 22, 2015

The P52 Assignment Brief: Still Life with Flower.  A color, vertical (portrait) oriented still life image with ordinary objects, diffuse main light source, that must contain at least one flower, but the flower(s) must not be the subject of the image. The objects must be simple…

Assignment: Still Life with Flower

August 20, 2015

I’ve heard that what you do on New Year’s Day affects what you get to do the rest of the year, sets the tone sorta thing….  I don’t know about that, but New Year’s Day usually allows me to spend time doing something I love:…

New Year’s Day: White Roses

January 1, 2015

Above:  Magnolia at Seattle Arboretum  (image © Bret Doss Photography 2013) Spring in Seattle On my first evening photographing the Coriolis Dance Co-LAB 5 performances, I wanted to be sure that I would arrive well ahead of time.  I opted to get into the city well ahead of rush…

Spring in Seattle

May 23, 2013

A particularly fun and creative exercise that I learned from Don Giannatti is a photography ‘improv’ session: pick a subject/object/idea/theme and a time limit (say, an hour). Make as many good photographs in that time as possible. No limits on technique or methods: change lenses,…

Improvisation

March 26, 2013

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