Tulips, my garden

Ooh, pretty! You should consider entering it in the current MSA.

@jeffreythree Thank you. How do I enter?

I don't know when you took the picture to be eligible to win, but you just post it in here: http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php...-2016-april-showers-bring-may-flowers.136924/ .

Ah. It was taken on 30th April so not eligible. Missed it by a day. On the other hand a good excuse to shoot some more slide film!

Very nice separation from the background.

@pbromaghin Thanks.That was deliberate but it worked out better than expected. It was the last shot on the roll and only taken to finish off the film. I knew that the dof would be too shallow with f1.8 or 2.8 and that the second tulip would be too out of focus. F4 was the next choice so I hoped it would work. A smaller aperture still would have meant a shutter speed that was too slow -there was a slight breeze and I prefer to use 1 stop faster than the usual 1/lens focal length rule. Also there may be have been too much dof with a smaller aperture. It was an educated guess but with the benefit of dof preview of course.

I think it's just great that you were able to find this in your own garden!

Well I did plant them many years ago. I used to open my garden once a year for charity even though it's rather small. I spend a lot of time gardening. They are called "Rembrandt" tulips. There was a speculative bubble on tulips in 17th Century Holland, "Tulip Mania" (Tulpenmanie). A single tulip bulb could cost as much as a house. Originally this flame effect was caused by a virus, now this flame effect is the result of selective breeding. There is a story of a Dutch man who gambled his house on a tulip bulb. His wife did not know what it was and cut it up for a stew thinking it was an onion!

Ah, yes. Covered well in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay.

Hah! Pbro. I loved the part about the worker eating the stonking expensive tulip bulb - thinking it was a type of onion.
Svenedin, I do love a nicely done tulip & had no clue the flame resulted from a virus. 'Hope you keep shooting them - color & BW. By the look of this, your garden (large or small) would be a visual treat.