Big Tama in bloom

Big Tama, a Samoan man in his 40s, a former rugby player turned florist: 6 foot 5, huge and broad, warm smile, black hair tied in a top bun, full traditional Samoan tatau covering one arm from shoulder to wrist, wearing a white T-shirt, dark jeans, brown work boots and a sage-green canvas florist's apron with secateurs in the pocket. Standing calmly in the middle of a bare grassy hillside at golden hour, thousands of huge peonies, dahlias and poppies bursting into bloom around him in a wave spreading outward, petals in the air, warm backlight. Big Tama stomps one boot on the bare hill and a shockwave of flowers erupts outward, thousands of blooms bursting open at speed in a racing wave across the hillside, petals blasting into the air; the camera rockets backwards and up in a fast crane to reveal the whole hill flooding with colour.