This image I took at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. I photographed this flower because of the backlighting and it showed how hairy the flower is.
This I took in my mother's garden. I wanted to show the neutral colours of the plant and that such simple colours could look so beautiful.
This flower I also photographed in my mother's garden. This is a pink flower and also very delicate. I decided to make this image black & white because you can see all the veins in the petals of the flower but when the image was in colour you couldn't see the veins and thats what made this image striking to me.
Close-Up Photography:
When it comes to my close-up images I like to photograph objects with texture even when it is something simple. In this image the blue and red popped out to me and that with such striking colours there is rust in-between...texture!
When I saw this metal rusted suitcase at a antique shop in Howick I just had to photographed especially that it is rusted and rusted objects is best for black & white images and if you want to show texture.
General:
We had to photograph Urban Decay. I found a dark room in a building on the Bluff area that had chipped paint, mould, etc. on the walls so I knew I had to photograph it. Because of the room being so dark with one tiny window I used a 2 second exposure. When I started to edit the image it didn't scream urban decay so I used HDR toning which gave me the effect that I wanted.
