"Vulnerable and fragile in warm autumn colours: Being Together" is a still life of two lanterns from a Lantern Plant. These two lanterns lie side by side in pairs. As these orange lanterns lie on a reflective surface, which also contains a texture, an abstract, picturesque reflection is created in the warm brown ground surface.
This creates a stunning effect. If you zoom in, you can clearly see how beautifully detailed the photo is and also how abstract painterly reflection is.
The lanterns have been off the plant for some time and you can see from the skin of the lanterns that they have already dried quite a bit.
This brings out the grain structure, which gives beautiful details in the orange skin of the lanterns. Because the two lanterns lie side by side, I feel they are like two lovers with their shoulders against each other, both staring ahead.
When photographing, I was inspired by the colours of autumn. The colour palette in this picture gives a warm autumnal atmosphere to the whole. Of course, the orange lanterns help the subject even more. (You see these quite often in autumn in the Netherlands).
This photo could, for example, hang beautifully in the bedroom, kitchen or waiting room!
©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…