This still life photograph means a lot for relatives of victims of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 which crashed in Ukraine. None of the 298 people on board survived. The victims family and relatives only knew the crash location from news. Camera man Joris Hentenaar and reporter Rudy Bouma were at the crash site. They decided to collect flowers from the crash site for the families of those victims. Gradually this grew into something bigger and a permanent memento for the relatives of all victims. Joris and Bouma took pictures of the sunflowers, the white tape, the melted aluminium, the debris from the location. Together they created the Stiching Zonnebloemenboeket, the sunflower Bouquet Foundation and asked artist photographer Bas Meeuws to create a piece of art using sunflowers.
This stunning model digital art stands on a sheet of scratched aluminium, a withered sunflower and flowers petal, seeds, most importantly Ukrainian soil and chunks of stone from the crash site are placed in the circle around the vase.
Full story about this stunning still life at www.basmeeuws.com.
Bas Meeuws is specialises in flower still life photography that he composes from photos of individual flowers. Bas Meeuws was born in 1974 in Heerlen, Limburg, in the very south of the Netherlands and grew up in the village of Spaubeek. Bas Meeuws is trained physiotherapist. For digital photography he is self taught all rounder and proficient in documentation, portraiture, nature and children. It is only in flower pieces, however, that his interest coalesce beauty, nature, the technical challenge, most importantly meaning and turning it into art.
Here are few of Bas Meeuws digital still life photograph.