WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU WANT TO SHOOT BUT THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ANYTHING TO SHOOT THAT YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY SHOT BEFORE??

FIRST LESSON IN BLOGGING: Keep Your Title Short and to the Point!! 

Oops!  I’m testing your endurance!

🙂

Well you know me, I head to my local nursery.  “I’m Back!”  Actually, that’s the expression on my face when I exit the car and notice the worker’s curious looks of wonder.  “I’m Back!” 

Don’t you have those moments when you just have to get out there and shoot something??  I do!!  But, what if you’ve shot everything there is to shoot and you don’t have the time to travel to a new, exotic place?  You see, whenever I don’t have a chance to plan a lengthy photo shoot, I always find myself drawn to my neighborhood nursery to photograph their beautiful flowers! 

This happens to be a beautiful rose that needed a little attention.  So, I added a series of artistic layers and tweaked the saturation and hue a bit to come up with “The Rose.”  The post processing along with the shadowing have provided the ingredients to bring out the interest in this amazing blossom!

The Rose

 Some say love, it is a river

 That drowns the tender reed 

Some say love, it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger

An endless aching need 

I say love, it is a flower

And you, its only seed

 

It’s the heart, afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It’s the dream, afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It’s the one who won’t be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul, afraid of dying

That never learns to live

 

When the night has been too lonely

And the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

Far beneath the bitter snow

Lies the seed

That with the sun’s love, in the spring

Becomes the rose

Music and Lyrics – Amanda McBroom

~ by photographyfree4all on May 12, 2011.