You don't bring me Flowers anymore.

[Dave Humphries]

Steve,

Me thinks you doth protest too much.

Necessity is the mother of invention and having L bottles instead of milk bottles might even be counter-productive.

I think you under estimate the quality of your work.

[carregwen]

This was my PAD for today. Several people have already commented that it looks like something else.... I need to get a life.

[Wirefox]

It certainly draws you in I had the same problem but I got all soppy and romantic about it.

[Loose Canon]

Not that it needs it, Pops! Not by a long shot!

But I’ll add this one to make yours look even better than it already does!

I was putzing around one night after everybody went to bed. I guess I figured I had nothing better to do but break out the Loose Canon and go play! Had to break out all the pots and pans in the condo we were staying in to get a platform low enough to the ground! Can’t get it just right and I need to do another one someday.

But as long as I’m having fun, I’m a Happy Camper!

Missouri State Flower


“No One’s Life is Ever Truly Wasted. One May Always Serve as a Bad Example”!

[PopsPhotos]

That is quite nice, also. I have shot them from all angles and haven't decided which angle will give the most "consistent pretty." I like the arch at the top, setting off the sparkles lower down.

The other one I shot handheld as I was headed back into the house to collapse. I putzed around for just a minute, trying angles and finally decided on that one. When I got it on the screen, it was "HUH! Maybe I am able to see a good one, once in awhile."

Pops

[PopsPhotos]

Here is one I took just a year ago. i sat in the yard for about 4 hours, watching it open up.



Pops

[Loose Canon]

Very nice, Pops.

The water Lily I posted earlier in the thread is the same way. It will completely open of a morning in about an hour and a half to two hours. Then in the evenings it will close just as fast. It may even withdraw below the surface only to return the next day.

It is so fast you could swear you can actually see it move.

[Loose Canon]

Not sure what happened here. Turn your back for one second and no telling what may happen!

Domestic Columbine (Or so I was told)

[Wirefox]

I think you under estimate the quality of your work.

Dave, I am always over critical of the overall impact my own attempts. It keeps me on my toes and aiming higher all the time. I think we get intimate with our images in the mechanics of capturing the shot, then in examining the blackheads in PP. After a while all we see are the blackheads. A bit like long term relationships unless you stand back a few paces and add a bit of spice and variety. I could never be a pixel peeper It would be the photographic equivalent of competing with Liz Taylor for divorces. So I try to add something a little different. 9 times out of 10 I am unsuccessful but that 1 in 10 keep the fire ablaze.

Necessity is the mother of invention and having L bottles instead of milk bottles might even be counter-productive.

There is a lot of truth in that. I have this dread of slinging a 1d Mk whatever with a 70-200 round my neck and it draining what little creativity I have buzzing around in my head. Thats why I use a wrist strap. That way the technowaves are further away from my head and there is less chance of the destroying my fast diminishing right side. It is the constant conflict between mastering technology without draining the creativity. I envy photographers who can balance both. It takes a lot of mental discipline.

I have better post a pic after all that waffle...Seedlings

[Letrow]

The inside/stamper of the white poppy

[Leroy Maritz]

I picked these for to wife only to steal them to take pictures

[Letrow]

[ScoutR]

This is the coloured version of the rose that I tried to without success to convert to B&W in another thread.
Need some C&C on B&W Florals
Not sure if the colour version works either. What do you think.

[GrimTheRipper]

I don't know what kind of flower is this, but here's mine.



I don't know about this one too and it got silver-spotted skipper butterfly on it.


Pink Rose

[Rafael]

Again, no PP.

[Jim B.]

[Wirefox]

These were all shot at The Pines Garden in Kent

[carregwen]

This is the coloured version of the rose that I tried to without success to convert to B&W in another thread. https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/forum8.htm. Not sure if the colour version works either. What do you think.

Very good, Wendy. Looks much better in colour. And I like that raised shadow box in matching colour. May I ask how you did that?

[carregwen]

Steve

Uber lush! I like the rather abstract nature of these two.

[ScoutR]

These were all shot at The Pines Garden in Kent

I really like this one. The reflections of the grass are very nice, but I'm wondering it the diagonal strand going off frame at the right and the 2 vertical strands to the left could be cloned out. I know i would not be able to do it, but I'd want to.

The butterfly shot is very nice too, but again, I would want to clean out some of the fine twigs specifically the top right diagonal and the twig on the left.

Wendy