I’d been eyeing them at the checkout at No Frills for some days, the leftovers, the overstock for Valentine’s Day, the ones unchosen.
Days turned into a week and they were only fading further – aging beauties on their way out, their season past.
I brought them home to play with – to see what marvels they might yet contain…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Seasons
follow your nose 
These are SO sensual and rich, Kat; love them!
I’m with Dawn, bravo!!
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Thanks Dawn!
lovely captures
Amazing phtotos and details. This rose is so beautiful!
Not to be too crude but these remind me of vag…ahem, nvm. Don’t mind me😎
I really like some of these, and think they would look beautiful blown up!
Big, almost abstract pieces, yah? My thought exactly… ☺ thanks FBG
Yes!! Beautiful! I kinda want one hanging on my wall. 🙂
Which one is your fave? I’ll upload it to society6 just in case one day….
Which one?? I couldn’t pick just one! lol 6, 9, and 12 were my favorites. 🙂
Wonderful 🙂
Hey FBG – I’ve been having some internet troubles and so on, but slowly uploading some rose pictures, just in case…. 🙂
https://society6.com/katalina4/prints?page=2
And more amazing pictures too!! I might need to shop today! 😉
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Like a well-chosen second-hand car – they still had plenty of mileage!
love the effect of the seeming fading light of day as the shots progress. gorgeous work as usual kat ❤
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A lifetime ago I worked in wholesale flowers. Truckloads of flowers came in from California, Bogota, Holland, etc… One year the Valentine order for roses from France was totally damaged. there wasn’t one bunch that could be sold. Your beautiful photos took me back there. So much beauty there that too few would enjoy.
The drop of water in the heart of the first photo is like a tear.
The colors, the fading, the veins and the blending of life and rot…. There is so much there. A richness and poignancy in the details that is beautifully captured, Sorry, I ramble. Beautiful, sensitive work my friend..
Oh how I love this story. The imperfect masses…
No apologies for rambling here – all rambling most welcome.
your camera took you deeper and deeper into the mystery…. I, too, love to photograph flowers that are wilting, or past their prime. There is a strange and unpredictable beauty to them.
beautiful. i really do appreciate these photos as an amateur photographer.
Gorgeous, capturing nature at its finest is a favourite of mine.
Poetic and beautiful. It’s not easy to capture something like roses in a unique and original way, but you certainly have done that. The changes and the colors are really dramatic and have created unusual landscapes of sensuality and color.
Thanks so much for your comment – finding an image that I haven’t seen before is always my quest with the camera, but gosh, it ain’t easy 🙂
I like your roses because they are not perfect, like us…