Embracing Lovely Dead Things

[CarolineJensen]

As a botanical photographer, the change of seasons can be really hard. I love the full bloom of summer, but I live in a place where winter shrouds my existence for seven months out of the year. I have learned to embrace the 'dead' stages of things. I have heard this type of photography referred to as 'lovely dead crap', which always makes me laugh! If you love to photograph nature, you might want to try photographing once-beautiful things this way. The curls of the dried petals always call to me. It is like a dance frozen in time. 

 

[ToniPayne]

That is gorgeous! I always say photographing flowers reminds me of our life. We bud, we youth, we wither, we die.