Kat Sloma hosts a wonderful practice each month called Photo Heart Connection.
Deepen the connection between your photos and your heart and soul by participating in this monthly review of your images, to find the one that best connects to your heart.
I have a number of pictures that I am particularly fond of this month. Mostly spring flowers, or the branches of the trees now coming into bud.
I discovered a new app for my phone called Waterlogue and that has given me so many lovely water colour painting images that I really couldn’t pick just one.
But this is the one I keep coming back to.
I saw a flower arrangement somewhere, I no longer remember, similar in structure, same shape bowl/vase but I had no idea what the flowers were. I got the vase in from the shed ‘just in case’ I found something suitable.
My son’s girlfriend, Lotta, was here last weekend. He bought her some beautiful red Gerberas.
They went to visit friends who are planning their wedding for later in the year. Gina, the bride, wants to collect and dry flower petals for her confetti. Lotta asked me if I would dry some for her to give to Gina, and could I take the petals from her Gerberas when they had finished. She would have gone home by then.
I duly pulled all the lovely soft velvety red petals off the flower heads and look what I saw.
The disc florets! I put them in the vase and they are now on a bright windowsill, making me smile every time I pass them.
I think of Gina collecting things for her wedding and memories of my own wedding flowers.
I think of Lotta and her much loved Gerberas, and wanting to be part of the wedding plans by collecting petals (now drying in my airing cupboard)
And I remembered that Theroux quote…It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Thank you Kat for Photo Heart Connection.
Gorgeous photos! I really love that second one – the colour of the flowers, the light are perfect. Lovely Photo-Heart Connection.
lovely close-ups! And the flower disc should last forever now…
stunning image and beautiful story to go with it. Tempted to buy gerberas in order to remove the petals for those lovely discs
A lovely connection I couldn’t think of anything better
So amazing the beauty you found in dismantled flowers!
I love the “starburst” shape those stems make in the photograph. This is a gorgeous composition on its own, but so wonderful to read the story of why you pulled the petals off and what you discovered. One thing led to another and to another, which created something new and beautiful you wouldn’t have predicted. Isn’t life just like that? Thank you for sharing in the Photo-Heart Connection.
The light on the second photo is so gorgeous! Love the quote.
Oh yes . . . it’s definitely what we chose to see.
So many beautiful connections here. The red colour simply pops and I love how you have displayed them. What lovely stories in such a simple group of flowers.
Amazing! One would think the flowers would be ruined by removing their petals, but instead they became something new, beautiful in their own right and just what you needed to complete your vision. What a wonderful Photo-Heart Connection.
These are so lovely, Miriam!
I especially love the first one for its simplicity.
I hope you’ve had a wonderful day.
Who would have thought that the remains of the flowers could be so pretty in their own right?!
Alison xx
How lovely that you saw such beauty in what was left over … a wabi-sabi moment if there ever was one :). And I am in love with your new header – are those all your own watercolours?
I just love both the pictures and the sentiments
A beautiful photo accompanied by an equally beautiful message. I like the way the flowers are arranged that they echo the shape of the vase. Very, very nice.