FLOWERS are a gift to any photographer, tulips particularly so. Who could resist such colour and vibrancy? This and most of my other flower images were shot in my own garden by the sea in Bettystown, Co Meath. In this case, I used what is now probably an outdated photographic medium - colour transparency film. The image was later digitally scanned, though it was not manipulated in any way, apart from tweaking the brightness and contrast.