The 39th Scavenger Hunt had an overarching theme, Rose, and 10 other words to associate to it. I went for a very literal interpretation of that, got myself a rose bouquet (on discount because they were starting to fade quite a bit) and managed the whole Hunt in one (long) afternoon.

This was my entry for the word “Framing”, which is probably the image where I displayed most my smartass character – typically one would use framing to frame the subject, and here I used my subject as frame parts.

I long pondered *what* I could frame with my roses – until I thought of the hexagon pictures I have in my office. I detached them from their magnets, re-set them up on a horizontal surface, and arranged my roses around them.

I’m not very happy with this image, because it feels like it had potential to be much cleaner; as it is, it feels more like a first concept than a final image. But, it was the last image I shot, and I was tired, so it stayed that way. I also tried to edit away the shadows, but it was honestly much worse than leaving them, sooo.

The original, showing the source of most issues: the light was *terrible* (because I hadn’t made the effort to make it right!).

Camera	Pentax K-1 II
Lens	smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro
Focal length	50mm
F-Number	F/6.3
Exposure time	1/60 s
ISO	800

Other pictures from my fellow Scavengers: Framing