Submerged flowers - Hyacinths plus photos

Part of my Transience series - submerged flowers with colours and techniques to reflect folklore, fairy tales, history, flowers meanings, life event or celebrations of the pagan wheel of the year.
Hyacinths - In Greek mythology, the young Hyacinthus was admired by both Apollo and Zephyr. It is said that whilst Apollo was teaching Hyacinthus the art of throwing the discus, Zephyr became jealous and blew a strong gust of wind during the discus throwing, causing it to veer off course and hit Hyacinthus on the head , killing him. Apollo was devastated and refused to let Hades claim him. Instead he used his powers to transform him into a beautiful flower - Hyacinths. As a result of this story Hyacinths are often associated with love, beauty, power, rebirth, jealousy, death, and mourning. Basing my photoshoot on this, I chose my colours to reflect as much of this that I couls. Starting with white for rebirth, adding pink for love, green in the background for jealousy and finally black for death, sorrow and mourning. I also added a little silver for the magic of turning Hyacinthus into a flower and the magic of the Greek Gods.
The video is sped up and shows the sequence I went through followed by the resulting images.
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I have a presentation coming up on 27th may at 7pm GMT being hosted by www.camversation.co.uk where I will talk about this project. It is being recorded and will be available on demand on Camversation.
If you are interested in learning how to create your own submerged flower photos I have a comprehensive hour long tutorial full of helpful tips availabe here - www.etsy.com/uk/listing/17013...

[@suetuck1585]

This is brilliant, just watching your work flow is very interesting. Thankyou for sharing this wonderful process

[@AngiWallaceCreativePhotography]

glad you enjoyed it, it was a fun one to create

[@josephwisniewski3673]

Very nice. Do you have the stills up somewhere?

[@AngiWallaceCreativePhotography]

Thanks very much. Not yet, but I will be posting one daily on my facebook page and will add them to my website soon. Www.AngiWallacephotography.com

[@AngiWallaceCreativePhotography]

Ive updated my website with a few of them angiwallacephotography.com/transience

[@davemetcalf8431]

Does the flash work even when the darker colours are added? I would assume that the glass and the added black dye would just create a mirror effect when the flash is fired 🤔

[@AngiWallaceCreativePhotography]

I use flash 95% of the time with no issues at all , it actually helps reduce a lot of reflections . I use a grid to keep my light very directional and help prevent stray light.