Having worked for years as a scientific photographer, these works have been a natural transition from science into the arts. In this series I seek to abstract the botanical world into landscapes that are usually unseen or unnoticed by the naked eye. I purposely shoot in black and white film so as to remove color, a potential element that may cover up or distract the attention from textures and shapes only seen in the botanical world. Concomitantly, through the use of macroscopic lenses and intense cropping the photographed subject becomes topography; thus highlighting the characters of particular species. Because of this deconstruction of color and reconstruction of form and shape, at times, the viewer is unaware of the depicted botanical nature. Yet the abstraction is not only about cropping techniques and chromatic removal, but lighting the subject through a severe chiaroscuro. As the name implies, Botanical Noir uses the film noir visual language in a non-canonical form to create the drama of unknown botanical structures emerging from a sea of black.