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A few weeks ago, I posted a few of my photos of flower petals. Abstract art. Just about every sunny day, I'm out taking more photos. I even took a few indoors, with a very bright light (the bright light makes them sparkle). I keep finding new angles on the subject.
I started with fresh petals, but tulip petals can be firm, and they make more interesting images when they fold on themselves. It makes shadows.
As the petals aged, they became more pliable, and were more likely to wrinkle and fold. So that was more interesting, but you have to watch for blemishes and spots, which can detract.
So I just kept going, as the petals faded. It turns out that tulip petals get very lined as they shrivel.
And then, it takes more work to spread them out flat, and there are both lines in the color pattern, and lots of wrinkles. It's interesting how the lines combine with the wrinkles to give the illusion of depth, which is heightened by the blurriness in some areas. Or sometimes the shadows give a 3d effect. But these are all flower petals smooshed flat between two sheets of glass.
And then I used water, to rehydrate them a little, and help hold them down until I could get the glass on them.
And then I was visiting a friend who had some tulips with almost dead petals, after mine were already gone, so I took a few. I couldn't do anything with them when I got home that night, so I put them in water. I didn't get to them until the day after, and was surprised to find that the color had leached out of them - but only in patches. I'd show you what that looked like, but I didn't really get any good images out of them.
But I continued to soak dead petals, and got some good ones. I don't care for the water bubbles, but they weren't too bad in some of them.
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I started with fresh petals, but tulip petals can be firm, and they make more interesting images when they fold on themselves. It makes shadows.
As the petals aged, they became more pliable, and were more likely to wrinkle and fold. So that was more interesting, but you have to watch for blemishes and spots, which can detract.
So I just kept going, as the petals faded. It turns out that tulip petals get very lined as they shrivel.
And then, it takes more work to spread them out flat, and there are both lines in the color pattern, and lots of wrinkles. It's interesting how the lines combine with the wrinkles to give the illusion of depth, which is heightened by the blurriness in some areas. Or sometimes the shadows give a 3d effect. But these are all flower petals smooshed flat between two sheets of glass.
And then I used water, to rehydrate them a little, and help hold them down until I could get the glass on them.
And then I was visiting a friend who had some tulips with almost dead petals, after mine were already gone, so I took a few. I couldn't do anything with them when I got home that night, so I put them in water. I didn't get to them until the day after, and was surprised to find that the color had leached out of them - but only in patches. I'd show you what that looked like, but I didn't really get any good images out of them.
But I continued to soak dead petals, and got some good ones. I don't care for the water bubbles, but they weren't too bad in some of them.
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