Manhattan-based artist Katinka Matson is featured in this short CBS news feature, FLOWERS by Katinka Matson. The article briefly touches on the development of the flatbed scanner, (I didn't realize Ray Kurzweil was involved), before turning to Katinka's scanner based art. The images created using this technique are very richly textured and exhibit nicely saturated colors:

Katinka has 3 main galleries online, and as the aforementioned article's navigation is somewhat confusing, I've provided links to each(click on the image to see the full set in that series; from there you may view full size copies):

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