Research For Specialist Location - Flower Photography - Greeting Cards - NICKOLA BECK

As for my ''Specialist Location'' Im doing Flower Photography Greeting cards, Iv been doing loads of research for my inspiration and ideas. As I really enjoy taking photos of flowers, but some how they all end up miserable and black&white, I will try to do some positive happy ones as well. So doing research I found this - Nickola Beck and her work seems perfect for that type of cards.
I really like how many different styles and types she work, still leaving a ''hers fingerprints'' on each single photography. There is loads of inspiration from here photos and I will try to do at least one in her style. As she is doing not only flower photography but exactly Greeting Cards as well, that goes well together with my project. Going trough her Flower Photography seems likes she is completely in love with them. Each photo seems full of love, pureness and beauty. She got this strength to give powerful beauty each single blossom she shoots.

About Nickola Beck:
''I studied Graphic Design and Photography at Derby University, photography played a very large part on our course and has been an integral part of my all my designs. I worked as a freelance graphic designer & propmaker for many years, designing everything from logo's to making large props for TV and theatre. I went on to establish my own wedding stationery design business which included a couple of celebrity weddings along the way! Since then I changed direction to work as a flower photographer, creating beautiful wall art has lead me to designing my own range of cards and stationery in a completely different way and something I hope to develop over the next few years.

I regard myself as an impressionistic flower photographer, I absolutely love gardening particularly tropical planting and I’m a bit of a plant-a-holic! I am fascinated by abstract shots of intense light, colour, design and texture that are unveiled when enlarging botanical images and I love the jewel like quality and out-of-focus effects created by natural sunlight through leaves and water droplets. When out photographing, my main aim is to try to capture the mood, light and weather of the day and how the plant sits in its surroundings, even if it’s blowing a gail and the image isn’t completely in focus, I feel it all adds to the feeling of the final image.

 I am very lucky to live near some beautiful parks, woodlands and nature reserves in and around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and watch them change throughout the year. A large proportion of my images are photographed at these parks and often found in the most unusual and unsuspecting places!''

As she is saying that loads of her photgraphy is been taken just in nearest parks, this gives me an idea to do something the same (before i was just thinking of taking photos in studio)

As I couldnt get any more images in decent size out from google you got this amazing chance to have a look at hers work at 

http://www.nickolabeck.co.uk

My plan of action:

*) Borrow portable Beauty Umbrella

*) Find a nearest park

*) Produce at least one decent photography for my ''Specialist Location''

Hopefully I will be able to do this following Friday (as long as weather is sunny) and will post my results later.

Recourses: http://www.nickolabeck.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nickola-Beck-Flower-Photography-Design/215648771820839