Youssef: Good choice to go B&W here. I love callas and am hoping ours start to bloom soon. They got severely damaged in the winter but the leaves have recovered pretty well but no flowers.
If you had rendered this in color I think the spent blooms would be an ugly distraction but with your treatment here they tell a different and complementary story. Well seen, conceived and presented. >=))>
I like the triangle with the three flowers featured so prominently. The verticality works as well because of the stems and the long leaves. One thing possibly worth fiddling with is to use a depth map mask to darken the softer background just a touch. If you use the TK9 panel in Photoshop, this is something you can do with tools there. Black and white brings out such texture here that we might overlook if you left it in color. Good story here. The wild Callas are blooming here now, but my cultivars are just putting up shoots. I take the bulbs into the garage over winter because they’re so much more delicate than the wild plants.
The composition in this image is excellent, Youssef. The arrangement of the blooms in a nice triangle with the fresh bloom in the lower right really works well and is augmented by the V-form of the two main leaves. It’s interesting how we associate fading flowers with death when that’s when the seeds are forming and starting new life, but that is how we react, so the title fits well.
