I have always loved the fuscia. My mother used to grow them and exhibit them and they always remind me of her. I wanted to capture the colours and form as well as adding a quirk with the refracted fuscia head in the water drop hanging from the stamen of … (read more)

I have always loved the fuscia. My mother used to grow them and exhibit them and they always remind me of her. I wanted to capture the colours and form as well as adding a quirk with the refracted fuscia head in the water drop hanging from the stamen of the main subject. This flower was shot in my home studio and is a focus-stacked image created from six individual exposures. These exposures were stacked by hand in photoshop to get as sharp an image as possible.