When the flower outshines it’s surroundings

I found myself wanting to snap a few pics of a really pretty plant today. My struggle was how to get the “pretty” without the road, and it’s traffic, or the parking lot behind it.

I’ve seen articles that talk about how wanting to avoid people in photos of normally crowded places, or in this case wanting to avoid the signs of civilization is creating something false. It didn’t feel that way to me.

I wanted the picture to reflect the experience this plant, and it’s beautiful flowers had given me.

I was planning to sit in my car in that parking lot. Someone else was popping in to a shop, and I was going to read while I waited… but the flowers drew me out of my car… several beautiful flowering plants.

They didn’t just enrich my day, and add a touch of beauty. They did more than that. They pulled my mind from the traffic, and my car, and the round of errands we were on.

They offered me the proverbial “stop and smell the roses” moment… and I wanted a photograph that somehow reflected that.

Perhaps that is why my shots of flowers are so often close ups.

It’s just me and that flower… for one gloriously peaceful moment we haven’t a care or worry in the world.