For the past three years I’ve been immersed in an ongoing project titled The Delicate Ones, a sustained study of spring and summer made in black and white. Working in available light, I return to the same gardens, hedgerows and allotments across the season, photographing at close range to trace petal veining, the architecture of stems, and the moment when bud becomes bloom or fades to seedhead.

The choice of monochrome is deliberate: without the pull of colour, attention moves to form, texture and negative space—the translucency of a petal backlit at noon, the graphite-like shadow of a stamen, the soft blur of motion as a breeze passes. I mix tight macro studies with wider frames that hold plants in their setting, using shallow depth of field to isolate line and contour while keeping a sense of habitat. The series is sequenced to follow growth and decay, pairing images that echo each other’s shapes, and accompanied by brief notes on species and site. At heart, the work is about fragility and resilience, how small structures hold together, briefly, under weather and time.