Tulip dancing in the wind, laughing in the sun, shaking at the ecstasy of it all – the thrill of a Spring day in May.
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Very nice lines and shape as well as the vivid colors in light and shadow with this tulip portrait. A plucked tulip taken against a black background, perhaps? Lovely. 🙂
No, Anna, no studio work for me or my tulips. A tulip planted firmly in the earth at a nearby botanical gardens, near sunset with shallow DOF. (I think how that’s how it happened. Background was dark, grassy.) 🙂
Once again you have interesting and eye catching use of shadows. Very nicely done. I also enjoyed your one line poem on the tulip’s choreographic gyrations.
I’m glad the tulip is still grounded. They seem to have a short enough shelf life while attached to the ground and a shorter shelf life when in a vase.
beautiful. i love how the flower is so striking against the black background. 😀
I first caught sight of this shot on your flickr page and I’ll just say the first thought that popped into my head. WOW!
Pretty, like the dark background:)
good use of negative space. it reminded me of man ray, though his stuff isn’t really similar. bold shapes maybe?
You went and made pure art again.
Brilliant colors.