At the heart of Nature's Passion

Okay, those of you with your minds in the gutter are going to be disappointed – this is a study of the passionflower, not the burning passions of the human mind and body – I’ll save that for another day.

I’ve always liked climbing flowers and found the passionflower to be a very interesting and beautiful bloom to look at. It almost looks alien and there are a great number of interesting elements to the blooms and the leaves to photograph.

A while back the passionflower I planted in my back garden really took off and decided to use my washing line as a new climbing frame.

Nature's Silk

The only downside was that I didn’t have as much room to hang the washing, but I was able to get some very creative macro shots of the blooms and it looked magnificent and was the envy of my green fingered friends.

Unfortunately it was a victim of it’s own success and fell to a hard frost, which killed the growth off that was so far from any shelter and it has yet to recover to the same level of growth and beauty.

Passion's Pursuit

I’d not long had my macro lens and had been itching to find a good study to experiment with and the passionflowers were a fantastic subject matter.

I took lots of shots, but in the end chose to publish only 6 images to flickr and put them together as a set entitled Passionflower – A Study.

I was just going to choose just the one image for this post, but I couldn’t decide between these three images, all of which are my favourites.

Which one’s your favourite, or perhaps you like one of the other images from the Passionflower – A Study set – let me know what you think in the comments.

I’m sure you’ll agree, whichever shot is your favourite the passionflower is an intriguing, exotic beauty of a bloom.