It’s a Small World
Whether it’s nature or the man-made world, I’m responding to details of texture, color, shape, or line. It’s not enough for me to make an image of a pretty flower. Such images quickly become redundant and boring. It’s really only when I carefully examine the flower and think specifically about what I’m responding to that I begin to discover a way to create a photograph that expresses my personal experience of that flower at that particular moment.
With the image of this flower, I was responding to the repeating pattern that rose from its heart and flared out like some beautiful starburst. By using a 60mm macro lens, I was able to get in tight enough to fill the frame with the elongated petals. The diffused light was a result ...
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