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Noir

The dark comes earlier now and an autumn wind stirs outside, rustling through branches. Near midnight there will be one flash of light rapidly followed by a peal of thunder. Then rain. A flower gone to seed, plucked on one of the last summer days, rests on the strings of a hackbrett. In the dark, a photographer throws flashlight on the seeded flower, pressing a remote trigger, hoping to realise some vague idea. Taken with my analogue 70- 210 mm Tokina lens and a size three extension tube, quite a balancing act for my tripod. The flower is of a purple, thistle like kind that are beautiful, even long deflowered. A hackbrett is a German type of hammered dulcimer. This image is an "hdr" of two images, slightly differently lighted.

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Uploaded on August 25, 2015
Taken on August 24, 2015