Sunday Sea Urchin Series/study

The temp hit 118 today! I rescued the above Cactus flower from the shade

before it wilted. Three other blooms didn't fare as well.

I  normally photograph the Sea Urchins in the

 garden; I prefer natural light.

I had plans for the day but the flowers "spoke to me." 

I tend to listen when photographs 

need to be made! 

The wilted flowers, above, are just as glorious as the full 

blooms are. I felt that they were every bit as much a gift

as the perfect flower was.

Macros of the wilted flowers.

While I have taken hundreds of photos of the

Sea Urchin flowers, aka Echinopsis, I rarely 

take macros of them. 

Studying the flowers from different angles  . . .

abstracting the flowers with a macro lens on

the iPhone . . 

New perspective!

I used only one app on the iPad to edit all of the images.

iColorama.

I ended up concentrating on macros rather 

than full frame photos.

I probably could have taken more than a dozen photographs

but in the end a challenge to create twelve forced me to 

think about each photo  . . .

Digital photography makes it easy to make numerous 

photos and then choose the best. I come from an era when film

slowed down the process, something I don't often do anymore. 

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in

an ordinary place . . . I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do

with the way you see them." Elliott Erwitt