I found a couple of broken, half-dead tulips in my garden the other day. Instead of throwing them on the compost heap, I decided to try to revive them and put them into a vase of water. To my delight, after a couple of days they did recover a bit.
As they started to decay, I realised the flowers became more beautiful as their petals dried up. I took some photos of them with my husband’s stained glass window as a backdrop. I thought that the colours in his glass complimented those of the flowers.
I was delighted with the results, then the experimental in me took over and I turned them into black and white.
Now I’m not sure which I like best.
Do you think the colour photos are better than the black and white pictures?
Nikki McDonagh - author and photographer 
I like all of them 🙂
Thanks!!
Now I’m really confused:)
Lol, sorry. 🙂
That’s okay, I’m just glad you liked them and posted a comment. Nice to connect once and a while.
It’s realy hard to like one more than the other, they are all good but the black and white suits the decaying flowers. So it’s going to be the subject matter in the end, I like the colour though. Nooooo the black and white or maybe the ……………. Oh I don’t know, maybe if you hadn’t the stained glass !
I know what you mean. I think for the purposes of my theme – beauty in death – then I would go for the black and white. Either way, I like them. thanks for the comment Anne:)
It’s the colour version for me – the colours, and the way you have treated them are so vibrant and arresting. Van Gogh on Mondrian.
Thanks Will. Yep, Mondrian is the influence:)