Aster curls
New England Asters are beautiful flowers, but they age too quickly – the flower centers change from bright yellow to muddy hues and the petals curl. In this image I used the curling petal patterns of an aging flower in an extreme closeup:
Lovely
Thanks, Jeremy!
Fabulous. I had to check out the information about the flower, because I saw some asters today whose flowers were perhaps a half-inch across, and I was having trouble comprehending how you possibly could have managed this photo from those flowers. It seems the New England aster is a little larger — even an inch, or an inch and a half across. That doesn’t make what you accomplished seem easy, but it’s at least comprehensible!
The curls themselves look like a cross between butter curls and frosting decorations on a cake. The color certainly is luscious.
The flower is an inch across, but this curling petal is much smaller. I used approximately 4x magnification with a special lens, and prayed for the breeze to stop. Thanks for the kind words!
Really lovely picture!
Thanks!
What an excellent abstraction of curves and colors. I’d be proud to have made it.
Well, you certainly made me want to look closer at Asters next time around – I never noticed these curls.
I don’t think I’ve noticed the curls before. I started looking for fresh flowers, then saw something I could make with the faded ones.
I tend to forget how pretty flowers are, up close.