White Aquilegia flower.
This year we don't have any white aquilegias in our garden. This lovely little columbine flower was retrieved from the roadside by my wife while she was out walking and given to me photograph (because I like doing that sort of thing). This is the result.
It was actually taken indoors in natural light from a window while resting on black card. This result is a focus stack of 15 images.
I really had problems trying to imagine what the best composition would be for the picked flower. I'm not terribly intuitive. I took quite a few different aspects - this one seemed to be the best of the lot. Ah, well. Try it and see approach again...
Aquilegias get the name from the Latin aquila which means eagle. It looks like an eagle claw... supposedly :)
They are delightful statuesque plants that readily self-sow and have a wide range of colours from dark pink to rich purples, and they can be singles or doubles.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Flora Friday!
[Stacked and processed in Affinity Photo. A lot of work in curves to get the tonal balance right and enhance the colour.
Also used a yellow/green split tone filter to add interest.]
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