Pink (Dianthus).

These pretty little flowers appear on stalks six or seven inches tall above a blanket of spiky grey-green foliage. They are various shades of pink and white and are either simple affairs with charming circular patterns on serrated petals, or more complex flowers reminiscent of carnations.

They make good plants for photography, and repeat flower over many months. This image was taken in May this year.

This is the first of two flower images today for Macro Wednesday.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Mittwochsmakro :)

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Rose.

I keep thinking this is a poppy for some reason. It’s probably the flouncy pink petals…

The image was taken on a roadside walk locally in May. It’s a lovely flower, though the image proved a little challenging to process. Taking the flower obliquely is all very well but those pesky petals do have a habit of getting in the way.

This is for the Wednesday Macro group again today. I have also prepared a monochrome toned version of this one but I won’t publish it today as it says something totally different and would clash. Perhaps tomorrow for the Thursday Monochrome group…

Thank you for taking the time to look. As ever, I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Mittwochsmakro :)

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Daughter’s Delphinium.

It’s pink!.

Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy a bit more pink in your life :)

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It’s Friday. Just time then for a quick flower from last year for Flowers on Friday.
Thanks for all your recent comments. I hope to catch up a bit this weekend.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Friday Flora :)

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What is art? What makes a good photograph? What is a flower?

If you’d asked me these questions a few years ago I would have thought that I had an answer for them all. But ever since then I keep asking myself the same questions, so now I am not so sure…

The trouble really began when I heard someone, whom I respected as a photographer, say “A photograph of art is not art.” That struck a chord with me.

The point is that if you photograph a work of a art then your image is a record of the piece. It’s representational or record photography. Unless…

Unless, of course, the photographer puts themselves into the image, adds something creative to say something. It may be the point of view… or the crop. Or lighting or processing. Or something that tells a story, or evokes an emotion in the viewer that is more than the artwork does on it’s own, or different. Therein lies the potential for art.

Now my real problem comes up (apart from the fact I think too much… and a myriad of other things too, no doubt). I have discovered I like taking pictures of flowers.

It’s partly convenience - I have a garden after all. But it’s mainly because I really like their beauty and variety and colours. I tend to see them (when I am feeling romantic or just whimsical) as artworks created by God when he was having a bit of fun (I realise your mileage will vary on that, but I am sure you see my point).

And the difficulty is that I tend to take images of them centre-aligned, top-down, close-up. It’s a record shot of art aspiring to be my art. I’m cheating.

Which (finally!) brings me to this image. I’m trying to do something different. This is an intentional camera wobble macro of a paeony from my garden taken earlier this year.

I hoping to create an image about a flower, rather than of a flower.

But then… what is a flower, really? What does it mean? What is the essence of my experience of them? How do you convey their perfume in an image or the way they move in the breeze...

For the Mittwochsmakro group this week, and for my 100x project on motion.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Wednesday and 100x :)

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