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Fine Art Photography of Orchids, Fauna & other Natural subjects

Click on thumbnails below to view the wonderful photo collection of Blu Llama by Brian Monk. These wonderful photographic captures of orchids and other natural subjects are all available for sale on the Pricing & Orders Page.

About Our Photography

I have been taking photographs for over 20 years. I started with a Nikon that my mother borrowed from her boss. She gave it to me with a dozen rolls of film, and said, “Knock yourself out!” The cost of a camera and developing film, however, was terribly high for a 13 year old kid growing up in West Virginia.

I now shoot with digital Nikon bodies, and a variety of lenses. The rest of my kit consists of a variety of tools to provide light and hold my camera and subject.

My wife is also fast becoming an accomplished photographer, with her own individual style and techniques. Her photos are the result of the combination of her patience and interest in her often tiny subject. She has a special grasp of the natural world, and is intimately aware of the aesthetic pleasure presented in all things.

Artist's Statement

Many beautiful things are taken for granted. They don’t need any help to be beautiful, and our eye often passes over them without further inspection or examination. We expect beauty of some things, and create beauty in others by idealizing them in our mind’s eye. We glance and then look on to the next thing. All the while we do not explore why we find things beautiful. Why does an orchid inspire exclamation of “exotic?” Why do we pause and look at the sky? Why are roses classic icons of romance? Why do we write odes to trees? Color, structure, form, line are essentially undefined ideas that one may not understand or even be able to describe. My goal is to peel away the obviousness of beauty, and expose the abstract ideas that we use to subconsciously create our ideals.

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