Flight of the Tulips

Photographer

Izabella Ridder-van Tuijl

Category

Fine Art Photography - Still Life

Company

HET FOTO

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2024

Country / Region:

Netherlands

This image blurs the line between still life and surrealism, capturing the delicate beauty of tulips suspended in air beside a Delft blue vase. The tulips, typically grounded in nature, seem to defy gravity, their stems reaching upward in a quiet rebellion against the ordinary. The scene evokes both the timelessness of classical still lifes and a dreamlike wonder, where reality and fantasy intertwine. In this delicate balance, the tulips hover, frozen in an eternal moment, as if captured in the breath of a dream.