Flowers

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A close-up photo of a large, densely packed floral arrangement outside a flower shop. The bouquet contains a mix of pink and white alstroemeria lilies, orange safflower pompoms, pink garden roses, white roses, red carnations, and various green foliage. The arrangement is shot at a slight upward angle, with bare branches, tall green stalks, and a grey building wall visible in the background. Natural daylight illuminates the flowers from above.

24mm, 1/160, F 1/5.6, ISO 100

This was outside a flower shop and the arrangement was just overflowing onto the sidewalk, so I got close and shot it at a slight angle to capture how dense and layered it was. I didn’t want a clean, centered shot — the chaos of it was the point. Getting close let the different textures and colors overlap without any single flower taking over, which felt truer to what it actually looked like standing in front of it.