"Embrace" - Tracey Capone Photography
I think my favorite sign that Spring has, well, sprung, is the dogwood blooms. I love how the papery, delicate sepals gently cradle the smaller inner flowers. (The common misconception is that the larger part is a flower. They’re actually called “bracts” and protect several smaller flowers on the inside, similar to the green sepals that protect other buds before blooming)
I love how the tips of the creme colored bracts have just the slightest but of burgundy at the end, as if nature was using Photoshop to “burn” the edges to give them definition. More than anything, I love the overall structure of a dogwood, especially when shot as a monochrome image like the photo of the day, “Embrace.”
I wanted to give this a bit more definition by adding an espresso tone to the overall picture and I love how this turned out. The creme colored sepals in stark contrast to the bold, inner flowers; the variations in the leaves and the branches. Mother Nature gave us a wonderful subject when she created dogwoods, don’t you think?
Enjoy!
*tracey*
"Texture Series" - Tracey Capone Photography
