Dahlias are not an autumn flower, although they come towards the end of summer riotous display of floral colorification. It’s actually the autumnal hues of these particular Dahlias that makes me call this an “Autumn Bouquet.”
It was great fun to photograph it on my light box, process it for translucency to a white background, and add it in Photoshop to a scanned paper background.
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