On 4/30/05, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul - > > Thanks for the comment. It was actually one of a dozen roses I gave my wife > for valentines day this year. It had wilted and over the last several years > I've been experimenting with carbonizing flowers in the Charbroil grill with > the idea of a shot something like this. Never got around to doing it, but on > a slow day last month I tossed the roses into the oven and did a bunch of > experimental shots. For this image I just grabbed the burnt rose by the > stem, wacked it against the linen backdrop, and shot. > > one caveat - cooking roses really makes the house stink.
I almost wish I hadn't read that. Rather takes the romance out of the photo for me <g>. Thanks for the tip about cooking roses. I'd have never thought that about them. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
