by winter petals
It’s been a gentle January, a few heavy rainstorms, a week of fog, and now sunshine to tempt me into the so green garden to check out new growth of green tips with white buds – those harbingers, the snowdrops. Yet I and the camera are drawn to the dry heads of hydrangea flowers.
I cut one head to bring indoors for some play with both camera and scanner. I wished to capture the light shining through from behind the petals.
I held up the flower in a window with sunshine streaming in. I love those fine lines creating intricate patterns!
Next time I will show the images that came forth from the scanner.
January 23, 2014 in Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
Fabulous images. As always, Marja-Leena, your persistent and perceptive detective eye discovers things no one else notices. Maybe you could put together a book of all your photos?
Thank you, Natalie! Yes, I’ve thought of it but have not done so yet. All of them would need several books!
The first photo looks as though it could be a hat for an elf. The light pouring through the delicate tracery of the dried petals makes for lovely images. Natalie is right.
Susan, thanks to you too! And I love your imagination. I did think it looks hat-like, in fact I’ve struggled with the scanning because of that shape.
So frail, and yet so powerful.
Yes. Thanks, Tom!
I love the combination of the translucency of the petals with their veins and delicate papery surfaces, overlapping to make patterns in the light, while the berry stalks stand sculptural and sturdy beside them.
Olga, those contrasts certainly drew me in and inspired some play.
How lovely. We are enjoying similar weather here: sunny after days of fog.
Thanks, Hattie. I know you still find it cold but to us it is very pleasant for January at 10C (50F).
The first has a quality of strangeness I like very much. The other images are interesting, with the secret flower shapes that emerge from overlapping, and I wish that they were surrounded by black as in your scans, so that they weren’t domesticated by the background.
Marly, my scans (soon to be posted) do have the black background but I could not get the light behind which so beautifully shows the tracery on the petals.