Flowers to photograph in Singapore: how and why to take photos

Problem
Ho can you capture and preserve the flowers you pass? We don't yet have the ability to record and reproduce perfumes and aromas - I've read that this is being researched and one day will arrive - but you can record the flowers. Some tilt up, some tilt down. They may open at night, or open in the day to see the sun and attract the bees and close in the evening.

Answer
Here below are my flowers seen and photographed on the walk from an MRT station back to a condo. If a walk is tiring or boring, you can brighten it up by taking photos. (If your long-legged friends are walking too fast, you can stop them by taking a photo.)

A few days later it's lovely to look at the photos. I spin up and down, seeing something different in every photo each time. Looking at photos of flowers is like meditation, a distraction form stress, calming. Maybe that's why painters, in the days before photography and TV and films, provided still life paintings. From the point of view of a photographer, a flower is easier to capture than moving people, vehicles, animals, birds and butterflies. If you can add a human being, an animal, a bird, a butterfly, even a shoe or piece of litter to m contrast, show size, you are more likely to create a photo different from there average and win a competition.

I went to a lot of trouble to get the flowers without leaves which were turning brown or eaten into holes. I wanted a pretty pictures. I should have taken one with holes, for an article on what is eating your plants, or for some philosophical point about plants are food for insects, or into every life a little rain must fall and some nasty insects as well.

Another way to create a set of interesting photos would be to take the same flowers at dawn and at dusk, or in sunny and wet weather, or in a country which has seasons, in spring and autumn.

Also see my previous post showing a bird drinking nectar with its beak in an aloe vera plant on my balcony in Singapore.
Author Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Author and speaker.

Flower photos by Angela Lansbury.
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