A living index of botanical image-making
Black Backdrop Scan
Fox Talbot: Plant Calotypes
A living index of botanical image-making

Herbarium

Tegernsee, Germany, 03/2024
Lungwort
Cercedilla, Spain, 05/2023
Angel’s tears daffodil
Thalkirchen, Germany, 08/2025
Late goldenrod
Zürich, Switzerland, 05/2021
Sweet spurge
Offenbach, Germany, 06/2018
Field poppy
Detail, Offenbach, Germany, 09/2019
Maiden pink
Corsica, France, 09/2023
Twisted sea lavender
Stuttgart, Germany, 04/2022
Hybernal spurge
Pärnu, Estonia, 09/2024
Seashore aster
Munich, Germany, 05/2024
Corn buttercup
Detail, Munich, Germany, 09/2025
Harebell
Thalkirchen, Germany, 09/2025
Wild carot

Features

Scolopendrium vulgare, Henry Bradbury, The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, Plate XLII, 1855

Henry Bradbury: Pioneer of Botanical Nature Printing

Cover, Fox Talbot

Fox Talbot — Plant Calotypes & the Invention of Paper Photography

Botanical Imaging

Spirae Aruncus, Anna Atkins, 1851-1854
Cyanotype
Backlit pressed specimen
Backlit Pressed Specimen
Scolymus maculatus, Hieronymus Kniphof, Botanica Originali, 1733
Nature Printing
Leucojum aestivum
Plant Illustration
Isolated Photograph – Field-Based Botanical Documentation Technique
Isolated Photograph
Diplotaxis tenuifolia, Detail, Stuttgart, Germany, 05/2022
Water immersion
Ammi majus
Black Backdrop Scan
Calotype – Negative–Positive Botanical Photography Technique
Calotype
Euphorbia hyberna
Pressed specimen