Red Poppy Square Canvas Print

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Close up macro image of a beautiful Red Poppy Papaver rhoeas in a spring garden meadow, Northampton, Massachusetts, taken in the late spring. Other common names for this popular wildflower are Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy, and Shirley Poppy. A portion of all profits from sales of this image will be donated to the Wounded Warriors Project as explained in detail below.

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. Thus, while this image is a beautiful reminder of spring and summer appropriate for any decor, it is also a special tribute to veterans. In honor of our veterans, each November, I will donate a portion of all profits from sales of prints o...

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...