but fair warning, I am heading out for a trip to two or three famous gardens in a few days so…

Anyway, this is my first effort to photograph a flower inside where I controlled the light and the arrangment. These tulips were given by a friend of Jill’s following KnoxCAM’s annual concert at Cedar Springs Church on April 21st. They were such a striking color and I took a couple to shoot this photo. I enjoyed “staging” the angles and placement of the two flowers. I thought the gentle bends and the foliage behind each blossom worked well. I would liked to have a bit more of the bottom leaf but the vase intruded into the photo and if I raised the flower it lost the bend I was trying to keep. So a compromise. It was a fun experiment but I think I could do a lot more with this type of shot, better backgrounds, more arrangements, different lighting et al. So, perhaps some more of these later this year. Suggestions? Ideas welcome.