Dried Plant Stems Multiple Exposure Black and White II — The Overlooked
The same field, the same plants, the same technique. A completely different image.
These dried plant stems were growing in a field in a village near my home — roadside plants that most people pass without noticing. I was cycling home when I stopped, left my bike, and lay almost flat on the ground to shoot upward against the open sky, removing any distracting background entirely.
The image was created using in-camera multiple exposure: ten frames fired in succession, handheld, each one shifting slightly from the last. Where the first image in this series spreads wide and fills the frame densely, this one is more open — fewer stems, more sky, the shapes more legible against the pale background. The tops of the stems curl and reach in different directions, and the multiple exposure gives each one a faint echo of itself, a shimmer of repetition.
In black and white against a pale sky, the stems read almost like ink on paper — a loose botanical drawing made by movement rather than by hand.
There is a Japanese concept — wabi-sabi — that finds beauty in things that are imperfect, incomplete, and transient. These plants are all three. They were never going to end up in a vase. They were just standing in a field, being quietly extraordinary.
This print works alongside the first image in this series or on its own. It suits spaces that appreciate natural form and quiet observation — raw paper, linen, unfinished wood.
EXIF data of the photograph
- Camera Model: NIKON Z 7
- Lens model: NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S
- Date taken: 22. 3. 2026
- Exposure time: 1/100s
- F-Number: f/4.0
- ISO speed ratings: 250
- Focal length: 44mm
- Size of the photo: 5353 x 8030 px
