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Long time since I visited. I like the many directions you have taken. This one: Great idea, great timing, great capture. I wonder how many matches you had to light before they obeyed your imagination. -
Nature's own calligraphy within nature's own frame. just delightful
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Haven't been to your page for some time. All of your 'recent' photos are fantastic. Just yesterday I was thinking of going to our local "Butterfly Rainforest" and now you have inspired me to be braver in my crops. I love what you have done with this one. -
Very successful composite. I'm sorry can't get it all on my screen. Makes me regret some trunks I photographed and deleted, lacking the imagination to use them in a composite, which I rarely do, anyway.I think I'd like it offset more to the right with more of the black frame on the left. Just a thought to make the black more significant. I like this a lot. Reminds me a little of Uelsman, one of my favorites guys
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Am I the only one who sees teeth and feathers and hair here? Oh, sure the color is lovely and brooding, the crop is magnificent, but it seems to me if one is to find emotion and mysterious qualities, it is but a short step further to see the world or a small part of it. Maybe I'm overstating, but flowers inevitably display earth, wind, and fire--that's what they are.
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First time I've seen your wonderful portfolio. I particularly like this one because you have achieved two aspects of photographing a white flower that many of us aim at. First, you capture the full gamut of light and shadow, with a fascinating play of reflected light. Second the range of subtle color in a white flower is delightful. The bee adds immeasurably to quality of life in the flower. I noticed some comment about blacking out the background, always a problem with this kind of crop. As far as I'm concerned, a subtle hint of depth from a dark background makes it less of a studio feeling, the essence of outdoors--a flower sparkling in the sun. But I admit it can be distracting. Doesn't distract me here.
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The more I look at this the more I like it. This is one of those rare images where design and subject are so carefully blended that neither overwhelms the other with the result that the viewer nestles comfortably into the picture just as the kitten nestles into ageless human artifacts. You enriched a few moments of my life, thanks. -
Amazing how you have combined intense color and texture with powerful white space both contrasting and blending them. Best Bird of Paradise I've ever seen. -
Thanks for your comment. As for the crop, while I carefully consider my crops, I am uncertain about the final choice. My ex-wife hates my tendency to cut off flowers, but we are constrained by using a rectangular frame. A very lovely flower may not create good negative spaces. And the cropping involves decisions about how much of a macro view we want, how much we want to enlarge the flower. Most of my flower images are intended for a much larger print and a few appropriate, IMO, for reduction. -
Beauty everywhere...as here. -
In north Florida, our snow comes in the form of camelias, a prelude to
the real snow...dogwood.
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Well named. You could crop this in a mutlitude of ways and create a cinematic feast. difficult to treat tulips in a unique way, but you have succeeded brilliantly. Me gusta muchisimo.
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Image modified in PS to give a painted effect, possibly as a model for a
large painting. suggestions are welcome.
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90% of processing was through camera raw, 10% photoshop. started as
a rich red camelia against a dark leaf background. comments welcome.
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I like the combination of two elements I personally find visually enchanting: flowers and swirling cigarette smoke (alas! my cigarette days are long past and I am relegated to smoking cigars outdoors where the smoke blows away quickly except on dark, heavy evenings). I expect most would find the combination incongruous, but I find it delightful. I was not looking for a message, but I suddenly thought of the quote, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -
I find this image intensely charged with emotion but I cannot explain why. Somehow it has something to do with the interaction of the head with the light. By that I mean that his is not simply a well-lit head but a head responding to light. Very powerful for me.
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One of Grampa's favorite subjects -
A beautiful woman from whom I feel I could learn a lot and enjoy a few laughs.
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Truly a remarkable image, full of atmosphere and strength. It reminds me very much of the Impressionist exhibit of paintings from the devastating winter of 1888 (I think that was the year) of a few years back. I would describe this image in emotional terms--it has the cold of winter combined with the warmth of visual power. You know how sometimes it is so exhilarating to feel the cold silence of winter, seeing your own breath spreading forth as if you are reassuring the trees that summer will once again visit us.BTW, are you still on PhotoNet?
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Surprise! surprise! although only two anonymous raters, they both rated it 5 and above. Where are the 3/3s? I thought that was virtually automatic. Frankly, I don't usually check the ratings. the comments are what count. and, Janie, both you and Robert went beyod the usual "Good composition", "nice colors" that are fine to receive but don't yield much to go on. Thanks for the comment, I would love to have you take a look at my portfolio and make critical comments.
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Thanks for visiting. I always enjoy seeing what image a new visitor to my page picks to comment. Frequently, like your selection, it is one I chose not to ask for a critique. I liked this when I finished it, but I did not expect the folks on PhotoNet to like it. Maybe I'll post it. I'll wager I get no comments and only poor ratings, if any. Even though you are fairly new to PN, I imagine you have discovered how crazy the ratings can be.
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