Flower of the day

Flowers, Still life

I should say flowers of the day. Here are some still life photos of the flower bouquet I got myself for Easter. I took these and wanted to play with the idea of creating an art photography type of images.

That was the aim, did I succeed I’m not sure. I had fun editing the images, that I know. The rose captures my mood today, that’s for sure.

I read that , for photography to be Fine Art, it must be more than just a literal representation of something. The image must communicate that it was deliberately curated by an artist to convey an idea, not just snapped by a camera to immortalise a scene.

Cee’s FOTD

8 thoughts on “Flower of the day”

  2. I love this soft faded look, definitely an artistic vibe 🙂

    I read an appropriate quote from Susan Sontag just this morning. It’s long but I think you’ll find it interesting – I certainly did:

    “…the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art – it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure — photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made. Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac’s Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget’s Paris.”

    1. I believe photography can be art, one form of art. Maybe not this one, I think you wrote in one of your post about you don’t take a photo you make it… I think that is how it went. Isn’t it then a form of art?

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