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Like so many other Americans, I grew up with dandelions in our yard. Only much later did I learn that those are alien invasives from Eurasia. In contrast, Texas has a native dandelion, Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, a sunny flower head of which you see here from above. I like the shadows and intimations of things barely visible on the ground beneath the Texas dandelion flower head.

I've been involved with photography since the late 1960s, when I got my first real camera toward the end of my two years in Honduras as a Peace Corps math teacher. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s I went through a phase of black and white infrared photography, often even in 3-D. My current period began in 1999. Call me a nature photographer and you won't be wrong, but because there's not a lot of majestic scenery where I live (which is Austin, Texas), I've gotten interested in portraying the native plants of the region, especially our many wildflowers. Along with them come occasional butterflies, birds, and other small creatures. I often think of all these subjects, even the plants, as if they were posing for portraits, so you could...