Happy Easter! I spotted this orange tulip in one of my neighbor’s gardens while walking the dog and knew I had to lose the dog and come back with a camera. I shot this at a variety of apertures and ended up liking the soft focus on the background but wanting more depth of field on the main flower. So I blended two images in Photoshop to get the look I was after. I started to put a texture on it but decided I liked it just the way it was. I also realized I had posted two day 18’s so I made the correction and now I’m one day closer to the end.
Today’s quote is from Lin Yu-T’ang from Roderick McIver’s book Art as a Way of Life. I couldn’t agree more:
The proper use of imagination is to give beauty to the world… The gift of imagination is used to cast over the commonplace workaday world a veil of beauty and make it throb with our esthetic enjoyment.