With their large trumpet-shaped blossoms and distinctive sweet smell, angel’s trumpets are a summer favorite.

To create the image, photographer Harold Davis backlit the flowers on a light box and combined multiple photographic exposures, resulting in a luminous, transparent look. He also scanned a sheet of aged paper and, in post-production, added the scan as a background to the floral image.

“The point of this technique is to create a partially transparent effect using the colors that are passed through flower petals, rather than reflected by the petals, as is the case for most conventional flower photography,” Davis says.

Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp with an existing image by Harold Davis.