Dream of Peace Canvas Print

I have named this image Dream of Peace due to the symbolism surrounding both red and white poppies. This is a photograph of a red poppy, which only appears to be white. This is significant because it is a Flanders Poppy, also know as a Corn Poppy or Shirley Poppy, Scientific name Papaver rhoeas.

Red poppies are a symbol in both the US and the UK in honor of those who fell in the line of duty since World War I, often sported on Armistice Day aka Veterans Day (US) and Remembrance Day (UK), November 11th, for the armistice that ended World War I on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The poppy symbol comes from the John McCrae poem, In Flanders Fields. Accordingly many people wear a red paper poppy on Veterans Day (Remembrance Day) to honor them.

Recently, some people have chosen to wear a white poppy instead, as a symbol of peace, which some perceive as a controversial choice in their anti-war stance. I used a red filter in making this photogr...

I have been hooked on photography since age six when my grandmother, returning from a trip to Egypt, passed on her well-traveled Kodak Brownie camera as well as her wanderlust. A travel, editorial and fine art photographer by profession, my images seek to shine a light on the reality around me and to evoke an emotional response. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area, including at the Museum of the City of New York and hang in the collections of private, institutional and corporate collectors. They have been published in Smithsonian and Coastal Living magazines, in The Guardian newspaper, in books published by National Geographic, Fodors, DK and Workman Publishing and in dozens of other...