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The elderly were sitting on the benches for their daily dose of fresh air and chatting while I was in my, once in a while, photographic expedition at the park's flower beds. One small swift on my focusing ring and I found myself from the macro world to the planet of street photography. A brief displacement that resulted only one picture but I like it enough to start the post with it!

But lets move on to the flowers themselves :)

The roses, as well as a few more flowers where white indeed, so the monochrome edit doesn't alter reality too much but the truth is that nature shots in black and white trigger feelings much different than when they are in colour. But they are still interesting in a melancholic, quiet way.

Some of them don't even resemble to the original plant offering us a palette of shapes that can be read in various, even abstract, ways.

And I love both quiet and abstract :)

I don't know why I keep returning to flowers as a subject for my photography. I don't have any scientific or studious interest in them. Actually I don't even know the names of the majority. I would say that my interest is purely formalistic or in plain English, I like the way they look :)

Anyway why we take pictures of anything, in the first place, when it is not our job to do so? Now that I think about it no-one ever offered me money to take pictures of flowers and this could be one more reason why I choose them in my free time :)

If you are curious to see how all those flora would look in colour, you can check out this post that I wrote three weeks ago. It contains not the same pictures but the same plants in their fully colourful glory!