Protea VIII

The backlighting and details are great. Very nice capture. FS

Bright, colorful, backl-lit, very good clarity - eye candy indeed! I might have darkened the very white bokeh on the right side - just a tad.

Quite spectacular .. I rushed to see the camera settings, but it's not that, some people just have the magic touch. Really superb, bravo. 

Nothing I do ever turns out looking even remotely like this. One question I ask myself is whether I am wrong to atempt it with a hand held camera ..?

Tony, you seem to have a talent for finding those items I wrestle with prior to posting.  The full sized 16 bit tiff image imparts more definition to the white, making it OK (to my eye). No matter how hard I try, when I go from a 50M file to a 1.5M something important is lost.

John, Thanks for dropping in.  This was hand-held at 1/60 second.  If I were photographing the beauty's you are so famous for, I would need a tripod as I likely would be sweating too hard to hold on to my camera :- )

Really beautiful work with impressive lighting and colours, Dominick!

With best regards,

Ruud.

Dominick,

  Beautiful image with wonderful colors, lighting & details.  Thanks for sharing.  Take care, Patsy

Dom,

Lighting and color here are amazing. Hand held? Even at 1/60 with the 100mm,, (I don't think it has stabilization, does it? mine doesn't) that's pretty good!

Thanks,

Greg

Greg, no, it's not stabilized.  But you should have seen the ones that got away!  Thanks.

WoWzA! A very cool image indeed my friend!!!
-r-

Great color and well composed.  So sharp details.  Nice lighting.  Best Regards,