Tulips Fest in Woodburn

On Sunday we went to Tulips Festival in Woodburn, OR. It was lovely sunny day. I spend the whole afternoon with my son taking different rides having fun on slides, swings, and playing with water.

I have to admit, that there were a lot of photographers that day. The flowers were just beautiful, blooming at all their best. If you can hold a camera and know how to press a shutter, you should go there. Pro Photo Supply organized a Photo Contest “Catch the Color”. The winner gets Canon Rebel XTi Digital SLR Camera as a Grand Prize. Not bad… By the way, I had know idea about the contest until I arrived there. But I had some ideas in mind how I would approach photographing flowers that day. I wanted to try something unusual and think “outside of the box”. So, I decided do not use any macro lens to capture little details nor trying to capture a flower as it is. Instead, I wanted to play with different colors and create some abstractions. The images below are total experiment. I captured them by Canon EF 70-200mm 2.8 IS L lens @ 200mm. All blur and movement were created using the lens, zero Photoshop. Should I submit those images to the contest and win Rebel XTi? What do you think?

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