Artist Reply: Hola, Pepe, gracias por la visita. Pues mira, esto es un recorte de una foto que tomé el año pasado. Tuve que recortarla porque la flor esta casi muerta, le faltaban trozos y su aspecto era realmente deplorable. Hay que ver: el pedacito aprovechable ha servido para componer una pequeña obra de arte. Olga Van Dijk, notabilísima pintora a quien ya conocerás, tenía entre sus proyectos pintar un cuadro basado en esta fotografía. Si visitas su portafolio verás que es una admiradora de Georgia O'Keeffe.---- Iba a darme un garbeo por tu portafolio pero me llaman a cenar. Huevos fritos con patatas -¡qué ricos!- y como no tengo problemas de colesterol ni engorde porque peso 70 kilos... ¡Vamos allá!. Estás invitado, por supuesto :-)

Artist Reply: Glad to meet you again, dear Christine (by the way, one of your sentences is in my Biography folder:-)---This beautiful tulip (colors of Spanish flag) was at my neighbor's. Broken petals, almost dead, I cropped the still safe part to reflect its beauty. Our talented and dear artist Olga van Dijk PROMISED to paint it Her painting will save its beauty eternally. Love.

Artist Reply: Thank you for the comment, dearest. Still having the coooooooooooooold? :-))) LOL!

Artist Reply: Of course, dear Olga. You don't have to ask for permission to use my images: it's done in advance. I'll feel myself HONORED if such outstanding and brilliant artist takes my work as reference. Truly HONORED. Thank you very much.---By the way I took the original shot at my neighbor's at El Val few days ago. The tulip was almost DESTROYED and this is why I play with macro: no choice:-))) Love and light from Spain.

Artist Reply: Ask Rumsfeld, Jorge :-)