Dutch tulips – color lunacy

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I have never thought I would be photographing flowers as many ”wildlife” photographers do in these days. It is quite a long way from my geological background to botany and orchid found in the meadows does not excite me either; but what happened in Netherlands was a real blossom frenzy! Our trip to Netherlands (as I wrote in one of previous articles) was scheduled exactly into the time when the tulips – symbol of Holland - are in bloom.

Guys in the action (Evžen and Pali)

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So when the light was not ideal to make pictures of birds in those days, we have parked the cars next to the tulips fields and let ourselves to dazzle by the vast ocean of colourful flowers. It is quite extraordinary experience to dive into the field of blooms…

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I knew that the other guys (contrary to myself) have put tulips photography into their Holland-trip schedule and thus right after arrival to the fields they started to materialise their dreamt pictures. I have been struggling a bit at the beginning, shooting colourful lines and areas with wide angle lens but the pictures were about nothing.

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I have ended up with my bird-telelens 500mm mounted on the camera and taking pictures of individual tulips isolated within the fields of differently coloured flowers…to make it clearer – e.g. one white tulip in the field of red tulips...

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In fact it is nothing really special and it seems quite trivial during the photographing but what give the final pictures their charm is the small depth-of-focus that diffuses the colours in fore- and background and the contrast between the overwhelming colour of the field and the colour of the solitary bloom.

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And one kitschy picture at the end – the idea to lie down on the ground and get different perspective comes from Evžen, well, there is always something to learn :-)

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