The flower’s head droops.
Its petals weighty
with age
and fragile beauty.
Captured.
Its age
and fragile beauty
linger.
This is the final in my seven-day series of posts featuring flowers.
I love taking photos of flowers. There are challenges to photographing flowers. I think carefully about the story I want to tell through the image – usually one of fragility or subtlety or beauty; how much of the flower I want to capture; the angle I will shoot at (eye-level with the camera, or from on-high, or perhaps down low, or from the back …); the part of the flower to focus on; how to shade/light the flower to accentuate its core characteristics … and much (much) more.
The challenges, as well as the technical elements and the processing decisions, keep it interesting for me.
I hope this little series has allowed you to see flowers anew – in all their fragile, subtle beauty. Perhaps it has also inspired you to get your camera out, seek out a flower or two, and make some technical and aesthetic decisions of your own.
If it has, please feel free to share your images with me – I love to see how others interpret/represent the flowers around them.
Musings from the cold 
Love this one, age is no problem for beauty, fading, dying all has its own place. Thank you for your photos and prose, enjoyed it.
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Thanks for sharing these images over the past seven days. I think your focus on the technical and the aesthetic, and particularly your idea of the story that you want to tell, goes a long way to explaining why your flower images have such impact… they really do tell me something about the character of each subject.
So… what will we see over the next seven days?
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