Trying to make artful images of these tulips. Showing them in a manner suitable for a botany text is easy. Making them look painterly is more of a challenge.
In camera - D300 Image Overlay of one image that has the near tulip in focus (the others are out of focus by using a wide open aperture on my macro lens) and a second image where everything is an out of focus blur (to provide the hazy fog in the composite image). Near tulip is positioned in line with a black background in order to better isolate & separate it from the others. Speaking of separation, I wish I'd made the space between the near tulip's left edge and the other tulips just a hair larger.