Mysterious

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Description

Mysterious scene
A flower and its shadow
Made by summer light

Specific Feedback

To me it shows garden summer in light and dark moments. What is it to you?

Technical Details

Nikon Z8, F5.6, 1/320, iso125, 24-120 at120


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Ben: An interesting concept and a product of what I call photographic vision. I’ll often have folks come up to me while shooting and ask what I’m shooting. When I show them the screen they’ll often comment that they never thought about getting an image from what I’ve seen. I suspect the same thing would have happened to you hear. Well seen, conceived and captured. >=))>

Thank you again for your valuable comment as always Bill. To make the story compleet. There is a witch on the flower stem (broomstick). but that I saw later. Hope you can see it too.

I do see it! :zany_face:

I don’t see a witch, but I’ve always liked playing with shadows whether from flowers, leaves, ferns or what have you, so I like where you’re going with this. Maybe getting the bloom and the shadow closer would be a more effective composition, this feels a bit stretched and random to me, which I know is not your approach at all. Hm…maybe moving around to try different angles would be interesting. Either way, keep 'em coming!

An interesting juxtaposition, Ben. It has a bit of a film noir feel to me even though it’s in color. The wall the shadow’s on adds a lot of interest to the image and the bright light on the flower gives it a high contrast feel that goes with that feel.