Burke’s photography often fuses the worlds of science and art. For this shoot, he brought a macro lens to get detailed photos of the blossoms’ structures. Close up, the flowers’ centers almost look like fireworks, he says. He specializes in something he calls environmental portraiture, or capturing people in nature, and is known for his photo series Wild & Precious, which documents trips to beaches, mountains, forests and canyons with his young daughter. This kind of photography is “sort of raw and wild,” he says. “It was a great tool for creating this relationship between my kids and nature and between me and my kids.”