One of my best friends doesn't like receiving flowers - at all. So when she had a bouquet of sunflowers in her home I was both surprised and amused: how pretty a photograph could I make of these so disliked flowers?

I then went on to edit the shots on my phone and compose one of the photographs in a photo experiment similar as the one I did a few weeks ago: mirror them, upside down, left to right, to recreate something as familiar as a flower into sometimes almost abstract pieces of art.

The selection of five

The results were less 'strong' than the first experiment, but that's why they are called experiments. The strong bold black lines in the first experiment really helped to create shapes and contrasts, which are less present in the current shot. I still liked a few of the results enough to share them, also as a way to document what makes these more or less interesting.

[Simple, almost a direct mirror of the original image.]

[Focus on the flower heads, mirrored.]

[A 'flip of the image, part of the image overlapping to create an almost 'wide' bouquet. I like how to leafs touch, creating a horizontal line in the shot.]

[Mirrored flower, overlapping partly.]

[Focus on the leafs, almost unrecognizable.]

The original

Just to give you guys an idea, this is the original shot I went with.

I had a few more images and might see what results I can create with those. In order to focus more on shape than on anything else I used a black & white conversion, but maybe the yellow and green can create a different layer of visual interestingness to the image I wasn't able to add today.

Do you have an image you want me to play with? Let me know and I see what I can come up with! I love experimenting with photographs and maybe a shot from someone else inspires me in a different way :-)

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