Macroshot of the stamens and pistil of a red tiger lily. The secret life of plants. When the weather is grey for too long, I go and buy myself a bouquet of flowers. It’s through the camera that I really start looking and I forget the misery outside.
Last night, the living suddenly smelt so sweet and that can mean only one thing: the tiger lilies are open! With my camera at the ready, this surprising composition appeared, reminding me of Matisse's famous, equally colourful painting of a circle of orange dancers together being one.
The full colours of this circle dance happening inside a lily celebrate life, pleasure, fertility. But isn’t there something inappropriate about it as well? In fact, a sublimated erotic charge emanates from the image. Is it perhaps too intimate to display it so brazenly?
camera: Sony A7iii
lens: Sony FE 2.8 / 90mm macro
speedlight: Godox V350s
Handmade diffuser
f4.0 | 90mm | 1/250s | ISO64
Isn't it fascinating, all that beauty lying beautiful around us, regardless of whether anyone is around to see it? With that thought, I come to my photographs; mostly cycling, I save the fleeting fragments that pass by. They are images of something bigger than me, .. Read more…