For a weekend of shooting in the Cinque Terre area long Italy’s Ligurian coast I had ended up in a Bed & Breakfast by the name of Il Tulipano, or The Tulip. I longed for tulips to juxtapose against the renovated 19th-Century farmhouse, but there were none, so I had to satisfy with the pansies that the owner, had planted in large numbers. I will return some year in May and shall have the opportunity to really express the vision I have for Il Tulipano. This image was created with two different lenses. The first three exposures of the farmhouse itself were done in very rapid succession hand holding the camera fitted with a 200mm lens. I needed to build up the tonal values of the farmhouse to equal 1/3 of the total exposure in order for there to be enough definition in the farmhouse to show through the darker flowers. For the remaining 6 exposures I replaced the long lens with a wide-angle zoom (18-35mm f/2.8) and zoomed through six shots as close as I could get to one of the groups of flowers. The camera was hand held during this phase as well to avoid, as much as possible, the strong lines that result from a tripod-mounted zoom.