“Light and Shadow” is the name of a gallery of black-and-white images. Light and Shadow is also the title of an upcoming book of black-and-white images.

I shot this image about 15 years ago in studio conditions. In color, the photograph was interesting, but it lacked something, and so it has languished in my back catalogue. Converting the image to black-and-white was a revelation. Black and white imagery is good for representing subtle tonalities, literally “light and shadow.” That’s true for this image as well. But what’s most striking to me is how the edges are captured. It greatly increases the depth of the image. The picture resembles a pile of wood shavings as much as it does the original flower petals.

Watch for the publication of the book, Light and Shadow.