Poppy in the wind

A wonderful piece of artwork!

A very nice abstract. Good color and motion.

Very nice.  Intentional blur that doesn't look like a mistake is harder than it looks.  I shot dozens of such shots in my mother's garden during a recent visit a few weeks ago and I only managed to get one or two that I sort of liked and none that I really loved.  May years ago, I found a library book devoted to these types of shots that were just fantastic - especially since they were taken in the pre digital days. The authors must have burned through rolls and rolls of film. Ever since then, I've been trying my hand at this type of photography off and on.  Care to share any techniques that you've found to be especially useful?  I've tried all sorts of shutter speeds and movements in different directions, but haven't really stumbled upon the right combination yet.  I'm thinking limiting the range of motion may be something I need to explore in the future.  Once again, a very fine photo.

 To :Bruce Stinshoff : Thank you Bruce for the compliment.
Actually the way that I could attained to this kind of photography to slow down your shutter speed, but almost depends on your hand I mean strong or not and also depends the movement you are about to do, shaking,circling,up and down or left to right.. then for sure you need the smallest aperture. Also the more you zoom in on your subject and having blur background the more beautiful your photo be.

Regs

Nima

To Bruce Stinshoff : I just wonder why almost half of my comment didnt come!

when you choose the slow shutter speed/small aperture, while you want to press the shutter bottom you can SHAKE your camera ( again it depends on what you chose to take, also it depends on your shutter speed; these two the way you slow down the shutter speed and the kind of movement can effect on each other and any of them can be different in the ultimate photo ) slowly, rapidly, up to down, left to right or...

Thanks for the reply.  If you'd like to see a few of my intentionally blurred photos, I just added a folder at http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1055230