I spent two years (2022-2024) photographing roses in the Queen Mary’s Rose Gardens in the Regent’s Park in London. For this project i did everything you are not supposed to do. I didn't want to control Nature, I did not allow myself to have any advantage or control over my subjects. I took over 36,000 photos using a high-magnification macro lens and natural lighting. All photos were taken handheld without typical support or rigging. Roses were free to do what roses do best—being roses. They swayed in front of the lens in the slightest breeze, unconstrained, oblivious to my efforts to compose images. Most of the time I missed, but when Nature was kind to me, the photos captured abstract images that Nature lets you see only if you get so close that the sunlight turns translucent petals into clouds of colour.

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