Body Double

I like the two sisters ...side by side.   The blurred version shows the beauty of the color combination of pinks and blues... then the more detailed version is delightful for the unique stamen length and delicate parts.   The overlapping cloud of blur on the sharp version is a tad distracting.   Nicely done.

Beautiful, painterly image with lovely colors and lens bokeh effects. I think I'd like the entire center of the sharp version to be sharp. I assume you did a double exposure, with motion blur in the first? Very nicely done.

Hi Kathy,

Thanks! No this is not a multiple exposure, just a single one with one in the FG being OOF. The centre of the sharp one really is sharp, though.... 

Grt, Ingrid.

Looks fantastic to me, sharpness included!  The color combination doesn't hurt either.  Very nice.

An intriguing and lovely color combo. And a neat "cram". Whence came the aqua colored BG? Was this a PS application?

Thanks for your comments!

@Phil, no no PS application. I like to create images in the camera and do as little as possible to them afterwards. The BG is the light reflected on the silver side of a reflection screen. I actually don't know why it's blue in this instance.

Thanks!! 

These look like Japanese Wood Anemones, and should have a hue closer to red than the magenta present. If you had a silver reflector, I assume a color shift into blue/cyan for the entire picture, I have approximated the actual colors based on that premise. I think what you have posted is a happy accident, unreal but better than real.

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your suggestion. However, these are not Japanese, but real European wood anemone. Interestingly, I just had a talk to the forest ranger about the colour differences, asking him why some are white and some are pink. He says it's like pigmentation in humans, some have a lot of it, some not at all. With wood anemones the situation is that most are totally white, others have variations of pink colours in them. One 'cluster' will be totally white, the other totally pink.

So I'm afraid that your processing of my picture is unreal and my photo not a happy accident 

But I understand the confusion, maybe in your area the 'pigmented' pink ones don't occur...not sure about that.

Thanks! 

Ingrid.

Ingrid: Beautiful flowers superbly captured and presented. Just a delightful image. >=))>

PS: With regard to posting, the first link to your photo on the posting screen is now the larger version which is the opposite of what it used to be. The site software will downsize that to 720 for the gallery view but you can choose to post your own 720 version at the second link on the posting screen. The only opportunity you have to post a larger version is at the initial posting. Once you post you cannot add a larger version. The one you tried to upload in the comments probably got downsized by the site.

Ingrid ..there you come up with another cracker of an image. I would say too...an impressionist painting. Beautifully composed..love every thing about this image..

Balan Vinod

Beautiful image Ingrid. Great colors and positioning of the out of focus elements.

Very artistic and pleasing to the eye. Very well done!

Congrats on the WP!

Sanjay