Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 f2.8 IS USM lens)

• Shot on Aperture priority
• Focal Length: 55mm (35mm equivalent: 88mm)
• Aperture: f2.8
• Exposure: 1/1250s
• ISO 400

I was walking by a church and spotted these flowers on the steps outside. They seem to be a bouquet that the bride throws behind her after she gets married. Whoever caught them left them lying on the floor, so I wonder what was going on there.

Onto more technical issues, I walked as back as I could, then I got up close and personal with the flowers by zooming in as much as my lens allowed me to, opened the aperture up wide and therefore isolated the flowers. The depth of field is shallow, the field of view is narrow and therefore the scene feels even more lonely. Even though at first glance the picture looks like it has selective colour in a B&W picture, as you can probably notice by the small tufts of grass, I did not play around with the colour of the rest of the photo – the stone was really that grey.

(#71 of 366 X 2012 project)