It has been about two years since I last made origami cranes from flower petals. The craft itself is not difficult, but the time and patience required are critical factors to success.
The latest attempt at this using orchid petals proved to be just as tricky, taking pressed petals provided by a friend and trying to work with them in the hot and humid summer. They are cut into roughly 1cm x 1cm squares using a scalpel blade, and then folded into the traditional crane model by hand only.
Without any special photography equipment, I used a jeweler's loupe combined with my humble phone camera to take the image, hoping to capture the beautiful vein patterns of the flower on the origami crane.
I like using water drops as a size reference because it is very hard to visualize just how small and fiddly the flower petals are to work with.
It is an exercise in mental fitness and mindfulness like no other.