You can also make a portrait of a flower. And the rose is perhaps the most requested model.
The Hidden Life of Plants is one of my recurring themes. It fascinates me that flowers and plants live before our eyes while we barely notice them. By zooming in, by taking time and observing them, I discover time and again the small miracles that take place in a time period other than our own.
The rose is such a strong image that it is not easy to still discover it for myself. To view it with new eyes, as if it were your first encounter. But in the bouquet in which I encountered this crisp one, I suddenly saw, how rich, how elegant the flower presents itself from among the green leaves. She does not have a colour, she ís the colour: a glorious, contrasting red that seems to want to unfold petal by petal. The rose is no secret, she is a sensual promise... This self-assurance is what this picture is all about, as far as I am concerned. Yes, one day this beauty too will wither but here, in this lush foliage, only this moment counts. Enjoy it!
Gear: Sony A7iii, Voigtländer 40mm f1.2 - 1/320 sec
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…