When it comes to free work, I don't usually take pictures. I am always on the way to a photograph. A trigger can sometimes be a chance encounter on the Internet, a picture in a book, or a fragment on TV. Once I saw a picture of the Little Miss in Green, and I was immediately captivated by the shape of the twigs that manifest themselves around the flower.
At the local florist I looked for the flower, but apparently it is not a flower you often see in a vase. So I searched the internet again. The only thing I found was seed to grow the flower myself.
I ordered some seed, but it was just after the season. Still, I thought, give it a try.
I could wait a long time, but nothing happened. A year later I tried again, but I started indoors with a propagator. It took a while, but a few leaves managed to wrestle themselves from the ground. So, a little more patience.
While gardening, coincidence suddenly led me to a little damsel in distress. Between the larger plants, low in the shade, stood a little damsel. The damselfly was immediately my favorite model, and she let me photograph her from all sides.
This year the damselfly was doing extremely well. Many flowers adorned my garden, and after blooming, the equally photogenic seed bulb appeared, which dried in many sizes to be an equally photogenic model.
My name is Gerry van Roosmalen, photographer and author with a passion for images and stories that touch. After years in the corporate world, I followed my heart and chose photography in 2002. I completed the Fotovakschool in Apeldoorn, specialising in portrait and reportage photography.
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