Pistils & Co – Floral Macro Photography and Nature’s Hidden Details
Enter the miniature world of pistils, stamens and pollen grains turned into visual poetry. This floral macro photography series unveils nature’s hidden beauty through color, form, and sensorial detail.
To observe a flower up close is to dive into a universe of surprising shapes, vibrant colours, and intricate structures. The Pistils & Co collection presents a gallery of floral details captured through macro photography — a realm where the naked eye can’t go without a dedicated lens.
Each image is a standalone composition, where petals become abstract landscapes, pistils form fragile architecture, and colours convey an emotional language. In one shot, Cape daisies reveal their violet hearts surrounded by blue-toned stamens. Elsewhere, honeysuckle stretches its white stamens like delicate arabesques, while an iris displays its golden filaments against a vibrant purple background — almost surreal at this scale.
Featured in the series are irises, orchids, honeysuckle, and various succulents and exotic flowers like wizard’s fingers (Lampranthus, Carpobrotus), whose red sprays of pistils radiate intense colour. This floral diversity offers an infinite palette of textures, gradients, and highlights — only possible through macro photography.
A carefully controlled shallow depth of field isolates the floral structures while creating a soft, atmospheric mood. The eye is drawn to the sharp zones, revealing pollen grains, curving stamens, petal striations, and the rich density of pistils.
Each photo was conceived as an autonomous artwork, balancing colour, composition and depth of field to showcase the poetic potential of the vegetal world. Choosing macro as a medium is a clear artistic statement — to highlight the hidden beauty of seemingly ordinary life.
The Pistils & Co series pays homage to the most intimate side of nature, offering a sensory and contemplative interpretation of the flower. It’s an invitation to slow down, to pause, and to see the familiar in an entirely new way.
These fine art prints are available for purchase in limited, signed and numbered editions. Whether framed or unframed, they bring a touch of elegance to modern interiors, waiting rooms or peaceful workspaces.
Floral macro photography is more than a botanical record — it becomes a complete visual artwork, where each flower tells a silent story of light, texture, and natural rhythm.
Explore this floral collection dedicated to the finesse and delicacy of the living world — a poetic monument to the miniature as seen through the photographer’s eye.
Sebastien Desnoulez is a fine art photographer fascinated by nature and organic form. Through macro photography, he transforms the unseen into powerful visual compositions.
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