Life is quite simple despite our attempts to complicate it. It starts at the beginning and finishes at the end and in between is a series of moments which we can influence towards how we want them to look and what we do with them; that's life and it's there to be lived right to the very end. Death shouldn't be feared, one would be better served to fear not living to one's fullest.
- galenkp -
Today I'm sharing a few photos I took on Sunday of a potted daisy plant I have in my garden. It's a simple flower when viewed with the naked eye but is one that reveals amazing detail up close and I love photographing them.
I've been waiting a little while to do this shoot, firstly because the weather has been bad and secondly because the flowers were looking too good, too alive; I needed them to be dying to photograph them for this post because I wanted to show the life-cycle of the flower from it's beginning to end, or near enough to it, and in this post you'll see some photos which were all taken on the same plant whose flowers are in various stages of their life.
I have some shots of these flowers in full bloom, at the peak of their life however they were taken several weeks ago and I didn't want to add one into this post in case the photography police saw it and arrested me for using the same image twice so you'll have go here if you want to see them. This post was all about representing life and death in images though and despite feeling that these images are not very good, they certainly do that.
Thanks for taking a look at the images and if you'd care to comment I'm always up for a little engagement.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp
[All original and proudly AI free.]
Every image in this post is my own and none are for your use, I mean ever.
Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III was used to capture these images.