Dead Rose, by Patrick
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If you regularly sample the delights of the DPNow forum and galleries, you must have come across Patrick by now. He's a meticulous photographer and a stalwart of the camera club scene. Like all good photographers, Patrick has a great eye for a picture and has seen beauty and texture in a tired old rose bloom that is way past its best. The lingering pink on the edges of the petals points to a fresher past, while form and structure is emphasised by the wrinkling and almost leather-like detail in the rest of the petals. It's easy to imaging symbolism with this picture - echoing a better past, looking at old age, sadness maybe? Or you could put a positive spin on it; a flower that gave someone, somewhere, a lot of pleasure once.
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