{"id":39129,"date":"2026-02-23T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39129"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:31:34","slug":"sami-with-rose-petals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=39129","title":{"rendered":"Sami with Rose Petals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39130\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w8.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/070223_Sami_rose_petals_5D_9591-w8-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sami with rose petals. February 23, 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"xdmh292 x15dsfln x140p0ai x1gufx9m x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">It was nine days after Valentine\u2019s Day and I had a photo shoot scheduled. Most of the dozen Valentine&#8217;s Day roses were done and had been thrown away, but a few were still looking good<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xdmh292 x15dsfln x140p0ai x1gufx9m x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">When Sami arrived, I looked at the remaining long stemmed roses and had an idea. I asked Sami to lay on the floor and I handed one long stemmed rose to her. Next I arranged her hair on the floor. Then I stood up and pulled the best looking petals off of more roses and dropped them on Sami, one by one, letting them land randomly. A couple landed in weird places so I moved them. I arranged the lights just so and started creating images. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xdmh292 x15dsfln x140p0ai x1gufx9m x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1yc453h x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">When I looked at this image on my computer, I decided to remove all of the color except for the rose petals and Sami&#8217;s lips. Her lipstick really was that bold. This is one of my all time favorite portraits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nine days after Valentine\u2019s Day and I had a photo shoot scheduled. Most of the dozen Valentine&#8217;s Day roses were done and had been thrown away, but a few were still looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39131,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129\/revisions\/39131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}