CAN A FLOWER RECALL MEMORY?

CAN A FLOWER RECALL MEMORY?
I took this picture in Cerro Hoya national park in Panama.
Cerro Hoya is the least visited and explored national park in Panama, and there are new interesting opportunities to explore. After 2 hours hike uphill inside the rainforest I discovered this beautiful and strange flower.
I was with the Norwegian photographer Ole Bjørn Engen, whom I was guiding on a 3 weeks photo tour to various locations in Panama. It was his fourth tour with me in Panama, and he was a dream client. The tour was already a success when I picked him up at the airport. He arrived full of energy and ready for new photo explorations.
 
Inside the rainforest the light can be a little shady and dim, so I wanted to try a creative approach to how I lit up the flower. I mounted the macro flash in front of the macro lens.
The flash has 2 independent flashes, and they can be positioned and angled in various positions. When I exposed the frame I held one flash behind the leaf, giving me an interesting backlight, and the other flash was mounted on the lens, and that gave me the necessary front light. Whatever you are working on photographically, be naive and creative and try different angles and approaches to your photographs. Remember, there are no truths in creative work.
 
Here is the equipment I used on this image:
Canon EOS 5D mk2, Canon 180mm macro lens , Canon cable release, Canon MT-24ex macro flash, Gitzo carbon tripod with a ballhead, BH55, from Really Right Stuff.
 
The camera settings was:
ISO 800, f/29, 1/250 second shutterspeed.
 
One thing is the image itself; another is the experience connected to the image.
If you think photographically you must separate your own experiences from the photographs, because the viewer of your photographs does not have your experiences from the time you took the image.
But your own experiences, in addition to your photographs, can be the engine and energy that drives you out in nature time and again to see and photograph the nature in your own way.
 
We, who are into outdoor photography, have more than a technical approach to nature. We are being inspired by the great master; Nature itself. To be inspired means to be “in spirit”. If you are inspired by nature is it because your true frequency vibrates on the same level as the nature. That will inspire you for new tours and experiences.
 
Ole Bjørn Engen died last summer. But when I look over the images I took on the tours I guided him, I go right back to the spirit from that trips, and all the jokes and experiences return as if I was back there. That gives me new motivation.
Not necessarily to repeat earlier experiences, but to merge my frequency with nature, to be “in spirit”.
 
Albert Einstein wrote: ”Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you can not help but get that reality.”
Before you go out in the field try to match your frequency with the nature and what you want, and as Bob Proctor said it: “Have a mind that is open for everything, but attached to nothing.”
 
To you success,
Øyvind Martinsen