©2008 Marty German
In Nature, nothing is pure white.
My photograph, titled white flower shows this flower in it’s multitude of subtle hues.
I noticed this flower at our local post office, beneath our flag.
The Sun was high but slightly behind the flower so that it’s front was in shade and the light came through it’s translucent petals.
Some of the light was reflected from the green foliage beside it and some had a bluish cast which came from the clear blue northern sky light, opposite our yellow sun.
The red central part of the flower both diffused and reflected magenta light onto it’s petals, too.
The resulting photo shows all of these colors subtly mixed together on it’s different petals.
Blues mixed with magenta and greens mixed with yellows all combine together.
In addition the textures and fractal shapes provide a marvelous canvas for these amazing colors.
It was a fleeting shot. This light lasted only for an instant. Only one photo out of a few dozen shots captured it. I was very lucky!
I’ve returned there many times looking for another chance to shoot it with a ‘better’ camera with a larger sensor but have never seen it, again!
Now the flowers are gone until next summer.
This is the nature of photography. It is both honest and unforgiving!
I feel privileged to be there to see and capture this image.
There were perhaps 50 people at the post office when I shot this and nobody else noticed the flowers.
I shot this with my wife’s Panasonic FZ8 digital camera in raw and later processed it using Aperture 2.1.1.
It is now one of my favorite 13″ x 19″ prints on my living room wall.
I hope you will enjoy it, too!
©2008 Marty German
