Regular Random: five minutes with some yellow flowers

All that remains, take 6: b&w. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 4. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 5. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 6. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 3. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 1. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 2. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 3: b&w. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 7. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 7: b& w. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

All that remains, take 8: b&w. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

I’ve almost got the remains of the Big T’s bouquet out of my photographic system, deriving nearly as much pleasure from close examination of the blooms’ decay as from their beautiful heyday.

In this shoot and my earlier posts of images of a solitary gerbera, I was really conscious of how powerful blackness is. In this, I am unashamedly inspired by the work of NZ photographer Fiona Pardingdon, and in particular her exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation, which I visited multiple times and have never ceased to be enthralled by.

Thanks to Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist for Five Minutes of Random (the RegularRandom challenge) which gave me the perfect excuse to spend some quality time with a bunch of dying flowers and a lot of black space.

All photos ©Su Leslie, 2017