Floscule | Highly evolved dicotyledonous plant Florets arranged in dense heads Resembles single flower |
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enerally every spring I enjoy photographing flowers. It is a challenge to make interesting photographs that avoid the cliché of such inherently beautiful objects . If you go back through time and review my sequential thumbnails, you will see a clustered batch of floral images recurring every twelve months. This year, however, we had a late cold snap that dramatically reduced the flower population. Consequently there will be fewer efforts featuring this venerable genre this time around.
Today's image is another made with my zone plate. I increased the ISO to 1600 and hand held the camera just inches from the subject. The creative possibilities of this image formation method continue to surprise me.
“A zone plate diffracts light; consequently zone plates are closely related to the pinhole. Zone plates render soft-focus imagery, yet they are not like soft-focus lens imagery, and their look is not at all like pinhole imagery. The beauty within a zone plate image is the recognizable halo or glow that surrounds any strong-contrast edge ...” - Eric Renner
