White Chapel's annual tulip display features over 50,000 tulips, including new and unique blooms
rarely
found
anywhere else in the world.
These rare bulbs have been imported directly from Holland in the
Netherlands and
include such stunning varieties as:
Submit Your Contest Photos CLICK HERE!
Click here to visit our Tulip Contest gallery
First Prize: A $300 gift card
Second Prize: A $200 gift card
Third Prize: A $100 gift card
Selfie Award: A $200 app gift card (such as Apple Store or Google Play gift card)!
The Metropolitan Detroit community has been participating in White Chapel's Tulip Festival Photo Contest since 2011. Amateur and professional photographers have entered hundreds of beautiful images, many including people, families and even pets. Hundreds of thousands have viewed the image galleries and voted for their favorite pictures.
A tour de force that sensitively expresses an innocent spiritual communion using composition, "Biblical" lighting and finely controlled exposure.
If photography is painting with light, this is an exemplary sample of that.
The red tulips show us how color isolation can bring the viewer's eye to a smaller subject with-in an image.
_MG_1374b.jpgThe photo is not only a loving expression of a child's wonder with the beauty of nature...it expresses a delightful renewal of life after an oppressive winter of pandemic.
This image uses controlled depth-of-field to place your attention right at the point where the little girl's hands gently cup the delicate flower...the soft dreamy look adds to the over-all emotional landscape.
TulipWC2.jpgA magnificent example of forced wide-angle perspective adding power and majesty to an image of simple white tulips.
The towering religious statue seems to command the little flowers to rise out of the dreary winter...which they enthusiastically do...fearlessly strong and straight.
2780DF1F17424C78BD1A946B59815643.jpgA mama's love reinforced by a little army of tulips behind them. A gleeful young face reminds us to shed our year of trials and tribulations if only for a few moments...
Spring has sprung and the tulips are its most vivid heralds.
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