Robert Buelteman

Buelteman makes these great photograms that initially reminded me of James Welling and his colored nature photograms, but seeing more of his work I have to say that I like Buelteman's much better. I was really interested in finding out how Buelteman was able to make these images and I found this:

"His technique is quite complex and dangerous, it’s based on Kirlian photography. He places flowers and leaves on a color transparency film, on top of that he lays plexiglas with a sheet of metal in between, floating in a liquid silicone. Then he hits everything with an electric pulse which causes the coronas and outlines to appear on the film. The last step he needs to do, is hand-painting it with a white light coming from an optical fiber. It can take up to 150 attempts to get this right."