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or the past 40 years, Robert Llewellyn has photographed thousands of unique beauties—


many of them trees, fl owers, seeds and other landscape elements. “For a photographer, anything can be a good subject, even dirt,” he says. “My mission is to move people from merely looking at things to deeply seeing things as they are.” For Llewellyn’s fi rst collaboration with garden writer Nancy Ross Hugo, Remarkable Trees of Virginia, published in 2008, the pair drove 20,000 miles in four years observing and capturing the complex lives of 100 notable trees. It was on this assignment that the Earlysville, Virginia, photographer developed his now-signature technique, subsequently used to illustrate one of their follow-up books, Seeing Trees.


30 Central Florida natural awakenings “I wanted to photograph small parts—


leaves, fruit, bark and fl owers—so I would cut off a bloom, twig or seed pod and put it on a light table and take hundreds of photos, which, strung together, were infi nitely sharp, like a botanic drawing. I found I could zoom into my subject up to a pollen grain this way.” Llewellyn lives with his wife on a 60-acre farm in tree-studded Albemarle County, enjoying 200-year- old oaks outside their front door. His latest of nearly 40 books, The Living Forest, is due out in October.


Why are trees, to your eyes, so captivating? When I fi rst started photographing trees, I thought of them as objects in the design of a photograph, rather


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