"The flowers of a thistle" is a macro photo of a small piece of a bullet thistle. This bullet thistle has some kind of tiny flowers on its bulb. When taking this photo, I chose a shallow depth of field, so the middle flowers are in focus and everything before and behind them slowly fades away. This gives a sense of depth to the work and also creates a kind of dreamy atmosphere.
For this picture, I tried to find a piece of thistle where you have a flower in the middle and from there the flowers run in a kind of pattern.
Because it's only such a small piece of the ball thistle, and you don't see the whole form, a kind of natural abstraction takes place, because you wouldn't normally perceive it like this with the naked eye.
This work could, for example, hang beautifully as wall decoration in the waiting room, bedroom, kitchen or simply above the couch in the living room! Also beautiful on the wall in a meeting room (business).
©Marjolijn van den Berg
In 2016 Marjolijn van den Berg graduated for professional photography. She likes to experiment with light and different shapes, colors and materials... Read more…