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Photo posted by Ed Lowe in the Landscape gallery on 07/27/18 at 11:23 am EST
Registered on 02/07/04, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
Post last edited by Ed Lowe on 08/04/18 at 10:06 am EST
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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on 07/27/18 at 10:56 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 364 Posts, 22328 Comments
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That must be quite a site in real life. Are these as big as they seem?
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Comment posted by Igor Doncov on 07/28/18 at 08:27 am EST
Registered on 11/22/14, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments
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I like the idea, Ed. It's original. Those are some healthy lupines. We never see them quite so tall here on the west side. You could work on the color intensity of the blue flowers a bit. The 50/50 composition works quite well in this case.
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Comment posted by Dan Kearl on 07/28/18 at 3:58 pm EST
Registered on 09/02/13, 209 Posts, 1514 Comments
What a nice scene and the square crop works well.
Nice separation from the FG to the trees...
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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on 07/29/18 at 5:08 pm EST
Registered on 02/11/04, 777 Posts, 5252 Comments
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Great shot, Ed. Lots of visual interest here with the sloping hillside, and the awesome lupines leading to the birch trees. The square crop was a wise decision as I compared it to mine with a wider ratio and this looks a lot better.
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 07/29/18 at 5:28 pm EST
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
Ed, This is really nice and I like the square format very much. It has a wonderfully natural feel and is quite inviting. The birch in the background worked out beautifully.
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.
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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on 07/29/18 at 9:52 pm EST
Registered on 02/07/04, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
Thanks for your thoughts everyone; always appreciated.
Tony and Igor: As a general rule of thumb the lupines are 3' -4' tall with some of the spikes as long as approximately 16". I think I remember reading once that they can grow as tall as 5'.
Ed
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 07/30/18 at 11:25 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Beautiful stand of flowers and finely crafted image of them. No suggestions here.
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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on 07/31/18 at 3:23 pm EST
Registered on 02/25/06, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
 ......absolutely gorgeous scene here, Ed. I'm truly jealous of this lush vegetation and the stunning lupine. Amazingly the wind must have been on your side as everything looks motionless. A very hard thing to predict around with this many leaves and the tall lupine stems......Excellent.
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Corona, California
Trailimages.com
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Comment posted by gary phillips on 08/03/18 at 01:31 am EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
This is a beauty, Ed. Everything is so crisp front to back. The clumps of birch support the lupines perfectly. Awesome image.
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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on 08/03/18 at 1:11 pm EST
Registered on 04/01/10, 196 Posts, 1592 Comments
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Those spear-like lupine heads are real nice. An alternative crop may be a vertical using the right half of the image with just the one cluster of nice birch trunks for background. I could see you spending lots of time working this beautiful area.
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Comment posted by Anil Rao on 08/03/18 at 3:39 pm EST
Registered on 11/15/03, 234 Posts, 4923 Comments
What a pretty scene. Hard to believe places like this exit.
I love your composition. It offers a nice doze of structure while being loose enough to not appear regimented. The color palette is also very appealing.
I can only imagine how lovely it must have been to be in that location. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us.
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Anil Rao
Santa Clara, California
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Comment posted by Ed Lowe on 08/04/18 at 10:05 am EST
Registered on 02/07/04, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
Thanks for your thoughts guys; always appreciated. It is always an invigorating time with the lupines. Some years everything falls into place and capture some wonderful images and other times nothing seems to cooperate and you come away with throwaways. I guess that's what keeps us as nature photographers going back and trying again. 
Here is a repost per Dougs's suggestion of a crop making a vertical composition.
Ed
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