As close as possible

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I was in a mood for flowers today and although spring is not here yet, to fill the scenery with blossoms all over the place, I went to the park to take a better look. I took my lesson last October when I though that there weren't any flowers around and I was totally wrong!

I know now that even when the park seems totally flowerless, there are some colourful surprises for the one that will look close enough. So I took my macro lens with me, determined to go as close as possible :)

And I wasn't disappointed!

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The park was indeed not in its best shape. Kids have stepped on many plants breaking them badly, some others (plants not kids) didn't survive the winter and the bigger loss, a centenarian cypress died and they had to cut it down, leaving a big gap behind.

But I am not a photojournalist entitled to document reality in the most objective way. On the contrary. I use photography to express a feeling and each time I raise my camera I choose what I want to see.

For me photography is decision. And today I decided to see beauty!

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Most of the flowers are planted from the park's gardeners. Some native, some exotic, a colourful mix to decorate our walks. But I mostly like how the wild ones invade the scenery, bringing their splash of colour when they think it's the time to do so. The ones that gardeners all over the world call weeds and are trying hard to get rid of them.

Those stubborn, resilient, small plants that keep coming back every spring, no matter how hard we are trying to suppress them :)

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As a photographer I love them, as a gardener I hate them but since I don't have a garden right know, I'll keep the love part from our relationship :)

I took the last picture to remind me that winter is only a few days behind us and that autumn was not so long ago, after all!

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_{The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 100mm f2.8/L macro lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic}

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