Photograph(s) of the Month: Roses
07.30.11

Why am I a photoblog all of a sudden? Read about it here.

And for my first "Photograph of the Month" blog I give you roses.

They're my mom's. I think she acquired them around mid-month. Of course, my first instinct was to jump in and take pictures. Yay.

I know that roses—like books, butterflies, and hearts—are fragile things but I never knew that they are that delicate that it is quite a task keeping them alive. I don't know much about gardening but my mom said something along the lines of, "I hope I can make them last". That just gave me an idea on how fragile they can be.

Why are fragile things often beautiful? Or is it the other way around, that those which are beautiful are fragile? Roses, books, butterflies, hearts—or why I'm so sure the world is beautiful.

For next month, I guess I'll find something moving, throw in a person or two in the frame maybe. If you head over to my DeviantArt you'll see lot's of flower pics in there. I find flowers that beautiful that I can't stop myself from taking pictures when I see some interesting ones—which scares me a bit. I guess it's every artist's fear that he has ran out of new ideas to try, that his recurring themes are no more than reused cliche. Where do you draw the line between recurring themes and loss of fresh ideas?

But hey this post is supposed to be happy. In other news, I'm no longer doing my thesis/special problem alone. I'm with two ladies and we're working on Porites a genus of corals. More about the problem as we progress. Yee-ha.

(According to Sir Pros, our adviser, thesis is, by definition, something you do alone. But for all intents and purposes, our special problem, usually done in pairs or in threes even in other labs, can be considered a thesis.)

'Till next month! ~The Chad Estioco