Nature nominee

This series reflects on the temporal and cyclical nature of life through flowers. From their tender emergence to their inevitable decay, each stage embodies a transformation rather than an end. In nature, time does not move forward — it circles, recycling energy and meaning. The flower becomes a metaphor for existence itself: fragile, radiant, and endlessly renewed.
This is a five-image series titled "Notes from a Quiet Garden". Please view the images in order, 1 to 5, to see the full progression of the series.

Lin Qing is a visual artist and photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1993. Some of his paintings are part of public collections in Beijing, though his photographic works have not yet been exhibited. His background in painting has shaped his photographic practice, giving equal importance to form, light, and the emotional rhythm of time. This enables him to continue exploring through a visual language based on direct observation rather than digital construction.