"Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellectual and touch subtle reality in a unique way." --Paul Caponigro

"I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself... First you must lose yourself. Then it happens." --Henri Cartier-Bresson

"To penetrate and record, even if only reflectively through an idea-image, that which takes place in, over, under, around, and through nature, is to feel the intangible, the somewhere inbetween, the what is and the what I am, the interaction between visible and invisible. This is what I look for--what I am interested in. I am concerned with what grows out of that interaction." --Paul Caponigro

The botanical images are stunning, lush and subtly suggestive of something more. A hand picked selection of the flower images have been made into a book - The Light in the Garden, available at Blurb.com: