Ballet ...

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Nice flower! Just messin' with you! The new lens seems to be doing great! Love the sharp focus and the dof here. The flower just glows with new life and the soil looks so rich...send some spring this way would ya? :)

 

Les

Actually it was a shot of a pit viper - but it moved and left me this damn flower shot ... )-;

 

Sending Spring to Michigan ...... Indiana is well - Indiana (-;

New ... reborn .. ready to deal with life again. Let's take this as a sign of a great spring.... and it's sweet and everything nice I think of to say.

Big Smile - thank you Bente .... (-;

Ken,

I'm looking at this on my pocket PC and I can't wait to see this on a big monitor! the blue looks like it jumps right out against the dark soil. as always...wonderful work.

elisabeth ;)

Very nice "damn(dern) flower shot"!

It glows beautifully!

And I of course love the color.

Thanks for the advice on shooting big and cropping later.

J

love it! .... love the purple against the charcole grey : -)

Stunning pit viper!!!...I mean flower...:) Excellent shot for the entrance of spring.

I'll be back ......... (-;

Just beautiful. Best regards.

Happy for you that you are experiencing the first signs of spring. We just had another snowfall this past weekend. :-(

 

Your crocus is "radiant" ! Excellent DOF and perfect exposure, of course.

Again, I sound like a broken record.

My favorite of yours are the ones with color.

Especially your outdoor shots.

This one a lot.

 

Thank you very much Heather - very nice to see you - jaaaa ..

 

Hi Kim - not my usual subject matter - playing with a new lens - thank you for taking the time - it means alot ... !

 

Ms. Dubya - I'm getting the idea you like purple - me too ...... So if you were a Perch - I'd use a purple worm - smile ...

 

Halina thank you .. (-;

 

Mr. Nichols - have I ever - done anything that would prompt you to put that 'red' thing on my page? - big smile - of course I have - lol .... thanks for the grin

 

Janis - I swear I haven't heard *dern* since those days on Hamilton Blvd. - dernnnn - big smile ... yer welcome.

 

Elisabeth - ohhhh I think Leslie is right - kinda girlie )-;

yes ... blue- (purplish)..... resembles a variety of iris in my back yard at the coast house, but smaller... a balarina it does resemble ....( "balarina, must have seen her... dancing in the sand" (Elton John) :-) Ms. Dubya

Beautiful! The DOF is very OK, and the light too. This lens works very well. (And the photographer too...) ;-)

Sheryl and Ghiga thank you for much for sharing - very much ...,

you deserve all of the great comments that you receive on this picture, it is so elegant and detailed, GREAT work, you keep improving.

Kellen that's wonderful to hear - thank you very much - big smile ..

That's one pistil packin ballerina, Ken. Jokes aside, it's superb. A flawless presentation.

Doug thanks very much for your time - I recently had a request for a print of this (Judy!) - always interesting to me which images people are drawn to - thanks again Buddy (-;