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Photography by Ira Gardner

Beauty in Death

Posted on December 14, 2018February 11, 2023
© 2018 Ira Gardner

My wife was about to throw out these flowers that had died but I couldn’t let them go without making a photograph first.  The texture and patterns of the dried out bouquet were beautiful. I feel gratitude for the beauty that exists at all stages of life and death.

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