The picture shows a red tulip that is no longer tightly budded, but whose sepals are still bent inward. The stem is bent down under the weight of the flower.
The tulip is in a vase with several tulips. This cannot be seen in the photo, but it is part of the story of how this picture came about. That story is characteristic of how my photographs're often created.
The vase of tulips had been in the living room for a few days and one morning it suddenly caught beautiful light. That invited me to start photographing the flowers. And while I was doing that, I was drawn more and more strongly to this one tulip that chose a different direction. This is something I often fall for as a photographer (or rather, as a person behind the photographer). I love the exceptions and the deviations. By then giving such'an exception in the photo a context all its own, a new story with its own "protagonist" is created. Thus, this image tells me something about the beauty of choosing your own path.
Kees de Winter is my name. I know myself as a curious and creative person. That is exactly why I became a photographer. For me, photography is exploring, probing, discovering and being surprised by beauty.
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