A Cleaner Break

Another image of that broken stemmed tulip.

A Clean Break

I liked this image better on the camera LCD.

There's a slightly unusual story behind this one. We have a small group of these stripey tulips at the back of our garden and I decided to make some images of them, using my diffuser as a background rather than faffing about with a piece of white paper. However, the diffuser is quite large and I dropped it as I was moving it into place, breaking the stem of this flower.

I was a bit nonplussed at this as I don't usually cut flowers in order to photograph them, but after a few minutes of fussing about, I got this into a pot and made a few images.

I did say that it was only slightly unusual.

I really thought this was going to be better, but I don't like the way the broad white stripe on the right bleeds into the background.

Chew Lip II

Another image of the stripey, striking tulip from our garden.

Chew Lip

Yet another image of a long stemmed tulip from our garden.