Winter Bloom

Gallery: FloraPosted January 12, 201491 views7 comments

We've had a fairly mild winter so far, and the winter flowering cherries now have a scattering of small flowers like this one, shot in morning light.

Canon 7D, Tamron 55-200mm lens @ 135mm, 1/100 sec @ f 6.3, -0.67ev, ISO 640, hh; added glow in Perfect Effects.

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7 comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on January 12, 2014 at 5:43 PM

Ian: Really nice comp and the square crop really looks good to me. I also like the near monochromatic color palette. Superbly crafted image.>=))>

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on January 12, 2014 at 11:50 PM

Ian ..the dreamy white and comp here works very well. Nicely composed image .

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on January 13, 2014 at 12:07 AM

Ian:

A very nice blossom indeed. I like the center of this blossom which looks like its bursting out. Love the bokeh and presentation.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on January 13, 2014 at 11:44 AM

Beautiful dreamy image, Ian! Nicely done!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on January 13, 2014 at 1:24 PM

You are fortunate to have the mild weather, and yet we always feel guilty when we get it don't we?

I hope you don't get a late one to kill these beautiful blossoms. Marvelous softness to this one, Ian.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on January 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM

Excellent, Ian. The backlighting, soft contrast, darker background all serve to make a pleasant image.

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Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on January 17, 2014 at 6:37 AM

Ian, this is a splendid photo for me. I love the back light effects and your skill in managing more louminosity in the shadowy front of the flower. I like the emotive backgrond too. I would have loved the image also with the vertical flower.
Here too the winter is still not arrived. There are some little flowers in almost all the plants that bloom in the summer and spring; something that I have never seen before.
Take care.

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