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We are proud to provide a resting place for these great flower portraits. We know just how much time it takes to accomplish this and it is very evidently a work of love. We thank Mark and hope that you gain as much enjoyment from these as we do. We asked Mark to tell us a bit about himself and how he does these scans ... here is his reply ...

I am 41 and very happily married for 13 years. A biologist, I am working at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in Fort Myers Florida. I am responsible for the regulation of about 300 public drinking water systems and I try to make sure your drinking water is safe.

My scanning technique using a HP 5100cse scanner.

1. Arrange the flowers on the scanner with the lid off.
2. Scan at 300 dpi.
3. Resize picture to 640 X 480 to save file space and to make it a good wallpaper. RESAVE
4. I retouch the background with Paintshop Pro to fill in background with an appropriate color, this also saves file space.I also use the Despeckle filter on occasion. RESAVE

You want to make sure that you scan your flowers within minutes of picking them as most of life force drains out after 10 - 15 minutes. that's what makes my scans look so vibrant! If you don't believe me just try scanning the same flower at 5,15, 30, 60 minute intervals and look at the changes. You will delete all but the 5 minute scan.

Also, the selection of plant specimens is very important. you want to use flowers that as perfect (without blemishes) as possible, because every little blemish is greatly magnified on the scan.

If any of your readers would like a full sized image ( usually 640x480 ) of any of these images .. they are welcome to email me.

Click on any of the pictures to see a full sized image. After viewing a picture, please use your browser's BACK key to return to this page

African Violet	Aloe	Amaryliss	Astromeria	Astromeria
Astromeria	Astromeria	Blanket Flower	Bleeding Heart	Blue Daze
bouquet	Buttercup	Buttercup & Blue Daze	Catwisker	Chyrsanthemum
clerodendrum macrostegium - It's from Thailand, Nan at the Siam Hut Restaurant gave me a young plant and this is the first time it has flowered. Took about 3 months to go from 8 inches to 2 foot. The flower is only 1/2 across and there are dozen flowers in each cluster.	Comphrey	Coral Bean	Coral Bean	Coral Bean
crepemytrle bouquet	Crinum	Dahlia	Daylily	Daylily
Rose	Desert Rose	Elderberry	Elephant Ear	Gilardia
Golden Dewberries	Hibiscus	Impatiens	India star flower & thulenburgia	Indian Hawthorne
India Star & Princess Flower	India Star	Jacaranda - I have this tree growing in my garden	Rose	Rose
Lantana	Lantana and Milkweed Bouquet	Pink Rose	Pink Rose Bouquet	Pink Rose
Pink Rose	Porterweed	Porter Weed & Firecracker	Primrose	Queen Crepe Myrtle
Queens Wreath	Rose	Rose	Rose & Coral Vine	Rose
Rose	Rose	Rose	Rose	royal ponciana
Scarlett Ladies Tresses	Scarlett Ladies Tresses	Scycamore	Sunburst	Sunburst
Sunflower	Swamp Lily	Swamp Lily	Thulibergia	Unknown
Unknown	Unknown	pink daylily	White Bird	Wildflowers
Yellow Ponciana	Yellow Ponciana	Astromeria	Butterfly Garden	Clerodendrum macrostegium bunch
Clerodendrum macrostegium bunch		Desert Rose	Mothers Day	Penta

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