Most of these photos come from Fox Farm Flowers, a six acre cut flower farm in North Berwick, Maine, owned and operated by my wife Tearsa. What started as a row of mixed seed packets in a backyard garden has grown into fields of regeneratively grown blooms that supply the local community throughout the season. I have a front row seat to it all, from the first tulips pushing through cold spring soil to the last dahlias holding on against an October frost.

Photographing flowers on a working farm is different from photographing them in the wild. The subjects are abundant, but the light, weather, and pollinators are not on my schedule. I shoot mostly with macro lenses, looking for the small details that get lost when you take in a whole field at once: the curl of a ranunculus petal, a bee shouldering its way into a zinnia, water beading on a lisianthus after an early morning irrigation. These photos are my way of slowing down and paying attention to what Tearsa is growing just outside our door.