POPPIES!

I do believe Spring is here in full bloom!  The milky white jasmine petals have popped up out of nowhere in our courtyard to fragrance my entire living room.  I have lavender colored blooms where I once only had chives (who knew?) and the best part is the wholesale flower mart has flowers that I covet such as California poppies in my favorite blush tones.  I am over the moon.  I have never seen cut poppies before, I thought because they are so fragile that cutting them was not an option but it seems that the florist adds a little wax at the bottom of each stem and you can enjoy these beauties for  a few beautiful days.  I knew I wanted to get some photo's up in my office and the color scheme I was considering for the images so the poppies were perfect timing.  I shot them high-key but softened them in post processing to have a ballerina like quality, soft, floaty, dream-like.  I used my kit lens because I seem to have broken my 50mm (it won't focus), to get the high-key I had to shoot manual, it is at times like these that I am happy that I figured that little photography 'secret' out.

I am not sure if these will be going up in the office, the hallway, or the foyer. Should I print one extra large with a glossy white lacquer frame or do a series of tiny squares in unfinished blond wood frames?  When it comes to decisions....What do you think?  Large? Tiny? Lacquer? Natural?

photo's by tristan b.::souvenir foto