I've been taking at least one photo-a-day since January 1, 2012.  On some days, the inspiration for the photo is quite easy.  This was one of those days.

It was quite windy outside and I wanted to explore various aspects of flower movement.  I headed out to the local gardens and spent about an hour exploring a variety of ways to capture "motion".

Ironically, I took a break from the many balls that I was juggling that day to spend some time on my photography.  I think the juggling and sense of blurred motion was on my mind when I went to visit the gardens.

It was actually late May and the tulips were starting to wilt a bit.  There were some that had already lost their lovely petals.  Luckily, I found a bed of tulips nicely placed surrounding a granite stone and the back side of the granite was without any engraving so I had a nice, lightish background.  I was envisioning a nicely blurred foreground with the color of the blurred tulips against the light grey background.

I set my camera to multiple exposure, in the range of 4 to 6 images, hand-held my camera, and then slowly took a few shots while the wind blew.

This is one of my resulting images; the image that best represents what I envisioned the Tulips Blowing in the Wind.

PAD May 30 Blowing in the Wind Two