BTS: Photographing Dandelions in Studio
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In the spring of 2025, I spent several hours photographing dandelions in the studio. It started spontaneously - I noticed how quickly they disappear once the seeds fully open, and I became interested in capturing that very short moment before they fall apart completely. Unlike most flowers, dandelions don’t really wait for you. Everything depends on timing, weather and a bit of luck.
Finding the right ones became part of the process itself. Some were already too damaged by the wind, others opened unevenly and even bringing them to studio safely was difficult. I carried them as carefully as possible because the smallest movement could change their shape.
Once inside, I started experimenting with warm yellow and orange light behind the flowers. I didn’t want the photographs to feel botanical in a traditional sense. The warm tones made the dandelions look less like plants and more like glowing objects. At certain angles they almost resembled tiny suns.
What interested me most was how something so ordinary and overlooked could suddenly feel fragile, cinematic and strangely emotional when isolated inside the frame. I kept the compositions minimal and spent hours making very small adjustments.
Looking back, this series became less about flowers themselves and more about trying to hold onto a temporary state before it disappears. There was something beautiful in the fact that the process could never be fully controlled - the dandelions were always changing faster than I could photograph them.