Macro Photo History of the first Tulips

Spring comes with flowers wrapped in cellophane. This is the story of my first bouquet. I just watched him for a long time and now I regret that I did not start photographing him on the first day, when the tulips were still completely closed buds. I remembered him when almost all the flowers had already opened. But you can imagine what they were like on the day of purchase by looking at the last one, which has not yet blossomed.

As long as the flowers are alive, I will not ignore all the stages of their dying. It is so arranged in nature that plants continue to live after flowering, completing this process, and the cut ones are not destined to affect the appearance of new bulbs and give seeds. It is only thanks to our admiration for the delicate colors and all these shapes, veins and stamens that such flowers survive in the water.

Cut and preserved tulips are tolerated for a long time until they are bought, presented and put in water. In the water, they wake up and begin a fairly rapid development from the bud to the wilting of the petals and the maturation of the seeds

I have been closely watching all these stages for about a week. At any other time, this bouquet would have already been thrown away at the first signs of wilting, but I set out to take macro shots of everything that happens to flowers from the bud to the drying of the petals.

I am sure that there is beauty in everything, and in the fallen petals too. Now the very thing has already begun, which I was waiting for, protecting these flowers from the trash can.

And so on, to the last fallen petal. Just today, I said goodbye to these flowers with great gratitude to them for the pleasure they gave me in the process of observing them, which lasted 20 days

Camera used: Konica Minolta DIMAGE Z2

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