This series celebrates the extreme mutability of the single subject matter: one or more Angel’s Trumpets, or brugmansia/datura. I further exploit this Digital Age opportunity with occasional “surgical interventions.” Every image is one single frame, one long exposure, even when the subject moves. I am suggesting floral-based ideas as examples of the kind of 21st Century updates which could be made now to the literal historical fine art bouquet.
The wide-open potential of the spectacular medium of photography is a constant source of new ideas, and I also honor its history when I create alternative process images. Always concerned about rich tonal values and compositional tension, I am unconstrained by allegiance to specific subject matter or to "standard" image formats. I have always had my own professional darkroom to use along with my (current) embrace of new technologies.
www.DianeKaye.com
www.FineArtBotanicals.net
Awards Awards/Honors
"Associate Distinction Award" (ARPS) of The Royal Photographic Society
2019
International Color Awards: Nominee in Abstract | "Organic Balance"
Nominee in Food | "Abstract with Jello"
13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards: "Nominee in Fine Art" and "Nominee in Silhouette"
2018
12th Pollux Awards: First Place, Alternative Process (for lith print) Juror: Phillip Brookman
2018 ND Awards: Honorable Mention for Lumen contact print Series "Glass"
Black & White "Looking Back Looking Forward 2018" Pinhole/Plastic Camera Award Winner
Short-Listed for "Shapes" at AAP Magazine
Don't Take Pictures Magazine online gallery "Lumens"
Fine Art Category Honorable Mention for series in Monovisions 2018
https://monovisionsawards.com/winners-gallery/monovisions-awards-2018/show/1499
Award for "Double Infinity", Black & White Magazine: "Looking Back—Looking Forward 2018 contest", Pinhole/Plastic Camera category, December 2018 Magazine
2 Honorable Mentions: The International Photographic Salon of Japan, The Asahi Shimbun, The All-Japan Ass'n of Photographic Societies, Tokyo, Japan for "Church, Santa Fe" Panoramic Infrared Lith Print
2017 Monochrome Awards - announced 2018 - Honorable Mentions: in Abstract for "Olancha", in Conceptual for "5 Red Balls", in Landscape for "Woman in the Dunes"
2nd Prize, "Still Life": "Chromatic Photography Awards International Color Photography Contest 2017" (for a Lumen Print -announced 2018)
Honorable Mention, "Silicon Valley Toy Plastic Camera", Art Department, University of Santa Clara, CA, Ann Jastrab, Juror
2017
Chromatic Photography Awards, 2nd Place, Still Life, for "Bottles in the Rain" Lumen Print
2017 MonoVisions Honorable Mention for "Skin on SIlver" Series "Nude" Category
2017 MonoVisions Honorable Mention for "The Intimacy of the Photogram" Series "Fine Art" Category
12th Annual Black & White Spider Awards:
Honorable Mention: Abstract Category for "Spontaneous Dance"
