Exposure date:  May 1990, printed 1991

Limited Edition,   -  Gelatin Silver Print
(8 x 10  inches)
Hand printed  by the photographer.
Location:  Studio Still Life
Copyright by Sam Tumminello, all rights reserved.

The tree classification is named after Pierre Magnol, a botanist from Montpellier in France. 

The blossom used in this studio shot came from a tree that once stood on Bide-A-Wee Drive in Huntsville, Alabama.  My dear wife and her mother, Ruth, planted the tree about 1967.  The tree is no longer there.

The photograph  was created in the darkroom by printing through a textured filter (crumpled wax paper).  Each print is unique because of the special printing technique.

Awards:  In 1991 the picture was accepted in the State of Alabama’s juried exhibition  “The Classic Cliché, Southern Magonlia”

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