Essence of the mood in that moment in time:

[AB26]

In my endeavor to get the colour right, I shot this using Auto WB and fine tuned it.

No correction was done, post camera.

I need to know if it is worth sharing images like this with others? If I asked you if you can grasp the beauty in that moment in time, would you be able to tell me that you can see what I saw in that moment?

[Donald]

I need to know if it is worth sharing images like this with others?

Yes! It is clear the image is not just a snapshot and that thought and effort has gone in to its creation. That fact alone makes it worthy to share with others. That it is also a pleasant and pleasing thing to view justifies it being shared.

If I asked you if you can grasp the beauty in that moment in time, would you be able to tell me that you can see what I saw in that moment?

That, I think, is a much harder question, because I don't know what you saw in that moment. I know what I see and I know the pleasure I get from seeing it.

[deetheturk]

Very nice Andre, I think its a very pleasing image to the eye, love the colours, although I'm not to keen on the frame keep sharing mate!

[bnnrcn]

The flowers look so fresh and nice

[NorthernFocus]

Well captured, Andre. Good techs and nicely composed. The border treatment is a matter of taste, annoying IMO.

I agree with both of Donald's comments. Who can say what another person sees?

[Shadowman]

Well worth posting, nice effort.

[AB26]

Very kind comments that are much appreciated.

Maybe I should rephrase my second question: Does it convey any specific mood?

Borders – something I am struggling with at the moment. I don’t know if a border is appropriate or not. An image without it just seems so hmmmmm clinical.

[bnnrcn]

Yes it conveys a mood Andre, when I look at those fresh flowers, I feel happy

[Downrigger]

Awfully nice, Andre. Interested to know more about "...and fine tuned it" since this is without PP (Shot as JPEG? Are there camera modes in the D200?) and the colors are quite special.
I think part of the story you might have had in mind is the "moment" in which the presented blossoms exist in relation to the emerging and declining blooms on the same stem. It is an interesting idea that for every living thing there exists a particular moment when all is fully and coherently expressed.

[NorthernFocus]

Oh, a mood. Well yes. It makes me think of the early light of a cool, quiet morning. Maybe sipping a cup of coffee and enjoying the garden before a hot, hectic day ahead.

[rpcrowe]

Different strokes for different folks... I really like the frame! How did you do this one?

[FootLoose]

I shot this using Auto WB and fine tuned it.

No correction was done, post camera.

Not sure what you mean by that, Andre. How can you use Auto and "fine tune it"?

It's a pity you are so averse to processing your own work. If this were mine I would tone the background down a bit to make the blooms pop a bit more.

[AB26]

Thank you People for the encouraging comments.

Mark, On a D200, Auto WB can be fine tuned by adding or subtracting bits of Kelvin temperature. Press the WB button on the top plate and spin the sub command dial. WB can then be adjusted ± 3, each increment is valued at 10 mired.

Richard, thank you for liking the frame. Do you mean how did I do the frame? In ACDSee.

Greg, I am not averse to processing my work, just obsessed with trying to get it as good as I can in camera. If it can be done in camera why process post camera? Have I used a smaller aperture the BG would have been toned down. The Pink stood out against the green leaves and I liked the look of it.

I still feel I have failed myself when I have to do too much PP on an image. Yes, the original RAW file is there but I only worked with the Jpeg. The RAW image and the Jpeg look exactly the same.

Colour changes soooo quickly when shooting at certain times of day that it is impossible to recall what the colour looked like in that moment. Trying to capture that moment in time with colours rendered as accurately as possible, that is what I am trying to do. Those moments never to be repeated again.

[Downrigger]

Colour changes soooo quickly when shooting at certain times of day that it is impossible to recall what the colour looked like in that moment.

True. And I like the idea of a perfect moment - I have often felt that way about the brilliance of a maple in fall - that there is one second in all the weeks of change when the wonder of the colors is most striking, most perfect.

I've become increasingly troubled by the issue of color fidelity, too. Especially when attempting to rely on memory when color is an especially important feature, or extraordinary, or hard to believe (as in some morning or evening skies). But with skin tones, and just in general also.

Thus, I've begun to experiment with a color checker - not to slavishly adhere to it, but at least to help keep me somewhere closer to "accurate" with issues like the extraordinary color you have presented in this thread. If PP is used to move beyond that accuracy to achieve a result responding to the initially conceived and subjectively determined vision for the image, at least I have a reference point to give me some idea how fanciful I am being.

But I am not sure how useful it is with landscapes and wonder whether a color check just adds another variable rather than anything very close to an objective reference point.