Tulip

Spring brings my favourite flowers which I love to photograph. Tulips and daffodils are on the list.

Window light, bright overcast, 105mm macro lens.

# 101: Tulip

I love to have plants and flowers in my house and garden that I can photograph. Sometimes, spending ten or fifteen minutes with camera and macro lens on a subject such as this is a kind of therapy - an opportunity to be creative between domestic chores and piles of admin, school runs and the weekly shop. Often the light in my kitchen is good too. I love the way the petals with the red flash have curled.

# 95: Tulip Impression

Experimentation need not be complicated. Keep it simple stupid...with lens in manual mode, defocus. The tulip bud was tightly closed, lit with window light on a dull overcast day in my kitchen.

# 13: Leaf light

During a sunny spell the light caught a tulip leaf in my kitchen today. I took quite a few shots of the tulip blooms, but this image stood out as today's favourite. I'm trying to 'speed blog' on my busiest days: I took shots only for the time it took the kettle to boil for a cup of tea whilst I had a break from working this afternoon, and I've selected an image that is SOOC, no editing or manipulation whatsoever. Sometimes less is more. I love the tiny highlights on the hairs, and that slither of bright green going down the leaf edge. Shot with my 105mm macro, hand-held, f6.3, 1/200.