Flowers Bloom

For this post, I decided to focus on nature and in particular flowers. With these photographs, I wanted to play attention how repetitive they are. For photo five, I used this idea and wanted to display how these flowers that are so similar, are slightly different. Every flower's leaves are slightly different. For photo six, I wanted to contrast the life and death of a flower. One flower, on the far left, is very lively, whereas the one to the right of the flower is not. I find this very pretty yet saddening. To achieve this shot, I used shallow depth of field, so the background would not be distracting. I took both photographs using a Canon EO5 Rebel XTi in the late afternoon. Lastly, I decided to take close ups because I feel up close, it is easier and better to see the individual flowers apart from the background. Close up photography also allows people to view subjects in ways people do not normally see them.        

Photo 5 (March 25th, 2012)

Photo 6 (March 25th, 2012)