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52 Photo Challenge: Week 39-Blossom

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”—Anaïs Nin

“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”—Neil Gaiman

This week my assignment for the 52 photo challenge was to take photos that define the word blossom. While it could be interpreted in more abstract ways, I decided to visit my local plant nursery and photograph literal blossoms.

What excites me about these photos is I had an idea of the type of image I wanted—black background and bold colors. In the past, I’ve achieved this look by accident, but today I did it on purpose. I consider this a huge photography milestone.

Let me know which photo is your favorite and have a wonderful week.

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Not a blossom, but aren’t those water drops pretty?
  • Photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW
  • If you want to join the 52 Photo Challenge, you can find all the information at nicolesy.com

52 Photo Challenge
Week 1: Bokeh
Week 2: Silhouette
Week 3: Black and White
Week 4: Motion Blur
Week 5: Texture
Week 6: Framing
Week 7: Leading Lines
Week 8: Negative Space
Week 9: Patterns
Week 10: Symmetry
Week 11: Green
Week 12: Sidelight
Week 13: Sense of Scale
Week 14: One Lens
Week 15: Series
Week 16: Flat Lay
Week 17: Behind the Scenes
Week 18: Water
Week 19: Blurry Foreground
Week 20: Unique Perspective
Week 21: Shadow
Week 22: Food
Week 23: Abstract
Week 24: Reflection
Week 25: Contrast Color
Week 26: Think in Threes
Week 27: Starburst
Week 28: Low Perspective
Week 29: Macro
Week 30: Backlight
Week 31: Big Sky
Week 32: Dominant Color
Week 33: Fill the Frame
Week 34: Spot Metering
Week 35: Handheld Long Exposure
Week 36: S Curve
Week 37: Shoot Through
Week 38: Faces

41 thoughts on “52 Photo Challenge: Week 39-Blossom”

  13. OMG! Like you said in the comments, you really topped the recent ones. I can’t pick a favorite: all are lovely. I’m a sucker for flower close-ups. I think the water droplets are over the top, though. So balanced, nuanced, crisp. Tell your instructor, “every blossom starts with water dripping from the branch of another blossom.”

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  17. Lovely idea, lovely work.  Flowers in the dark.  That’s true once each day for sure, but do we oft think of flowers Then.  We should.  So a keen sense of where and how to look.  A brief appreciation I offer here.

    But before I engage, I encourage viewers to fully enlarge each photo.  That bigger view invokes bigger feelings.  For real.

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    • Thank you, Neil. I edit the photos on a large screen and I’m often a bit disappointed that they don’t retain the same impact being seen small. I appreciate you being willing to click and look a bit closer.

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  18. That was part 1.  Here’s part 2.  WP, sigh.

    First, in deep red, I thought “me” – I may not look it, but I’m all about blood – so that’s my color.  1) is a bigger dream – the one we usually ignore because we get uncomfortable with that bigger story, bigger than us.  beautiful.  2) is a crown, royalty.  or the court jester, can’t decide.  3) the dream I haven’t told anyone about.  4) happiness looks like this when it sleeps.  5) arms length close wanting to be touched.  6) rounding the Cape of Good Hope, we celebrate.  7) shy, but worth so much more than it thinks.  8) go ahead, leap.  9) think so hard it hurts.  10) a golden field.  11) look, you think you see a plant, but no, water is what you see.

    Take the threads you find, or start one of your own.  Well nudged.

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