Floral photography is always fun to do. Flowers are always an inspiration to take beautiful photos of. There are so many different flowers, different in shape and different in colour. Each flower is different in size and has a different pattern on the petal.
Photographing a flower as it naturally is, of course, fun to do. But what I particularly enjoy is turning flowers into artistic works of art.
I often use multiple exposure for this purpose: merging several photos into one new one. This is a creative way of taking photos and challenges me every time to make a picture just a little bit different from the usual.
Sometimes I mix a flower with a certain structure or pattern. A structure or pattern that I come across in everyday life and which is an extra nice addition to the flower I photographed.
For this photo, however, I used the same flower as the background. This chrysanthemum flower (Chrysanthemum) is a particularly beautiful flower. It is wonderful to see how all the petals are unfolded from the centre of the flower: a particularly beautiful pattern of petals is created as a result.
Two pictures of the chrysanthemum flower are interlaced here and finished in warm vintage colours. This gives the work a warm, homely look that makes it fit nicely into a cosy living room!
I see making art as a creative process.
The starting point of this process for me is always a photo or a painting of my own. Every work of art on this site is therefore based on a self-made photo or painting.
I find my sources of inspiration in everything around me...
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