Open Theme nominee

The flowers in this series have been submersed in water. Sometimes an additional medium like milk or colorants has been included.
Distributing the additional medium in the vessel, in my case a fish tank, gives movement and dynamic - it creates the drama. The different density of the medium affects the opacity, it adds texture and dimension to the image.
One thing is for sure, each image is one-of-a-kind and can never be replicated.

Hilda Champion is a German/American fine art photographer born near Munich, Germany and living in Naples, Florida since 2001.
She was brought up in Europe but spent a big part of her adult life in South and then North America, which also gave exposure to different regional aesthetics. Additionally, extensive travels around the globe provided opportunities to experience different cultures, appreciate the arts and train her eye to architecture, interior and exterior.
Hilda uses the camera as a tool to express ideas and emotions. Sometimes she records “reality”, but mostly perceived reality. Her aspiration in photography is less about showing the world as it is, but rather to release the poetry of the ordinary and help people see the un-seen. Her goal is to show an abstraction of what she sees, free of distractions. Her images are “based on a true fantasy”.
Hilda Champion’s work has been shown in national and international competitions and exhibitions and her images have won numerous awards and accolades.