Parted petals
Now the bloom has finished and its stamen’s pollen has been ravaged, this Dwarf Tulip’s iridescent red-violet petals have begun to shrivel and drop away, their role now complete until the arrival of next year’s flowering season…
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*