Blue-eyed Grass (repost)

Gallery: FloraPosted November 10, 2015223 views8 comments

This is a repost of a photograph I posted last week, but I was notified that it disappeared from the NPN server due to a technical problem.

I found these little half-inch flowers glowing in the shade above the high water mark of a local lake.

Summary of previous comments (without naming names, lest I missed any): I have been busy with some home projects for the past week, so I have not been posting or commenting for days, but I recall there were several complimentary comments about the image, as well as suggestions that I remove the small OOF flower in the bottom of the frame. (That's something that I too often fail to even think about, because of my "documentary" background in scientific photography and a couple of magazines that don't like "altered" images.) One artistic European commenter wondered if I tried darkening the highlights and background (which I did in normal processing, but it was not very noticeable in the posted image, and I don't get into details like that when posting). There were also some valuable comments about dealing with ticks, since I mentioned that I laid on the ground to get this picture without using the plastic sheet that I carry in my pocket for just such occasions. (I decided not to use it because I was laying mostly on sand, so I ended up with a deer tick.) THANKS FOR ALL YOUR VALUABLE COMMENTS!

Canon 7D Mark II; Sigma 150 mm. Macro
1/100 @ f/11; ISO 1250

Tech notes/excuses: No tripod because I was on a short walk looking for animals on a local lake shore before dinner, so I rested the camera on my camera bag for this ground-level shot. Hence the high ISO (which the new camera handles quite well) ...and the tick I got from laying on the ground. :-)

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on November 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM

Hi, Wayne. It is fine with me if I was a "technical error", but the truth is best served by just admitting I screwed up by deleting your beautiful flower post instead of unflagging, as I intended. Thanks for reposting. cool

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Wayne Jones on November 10, 2015 at 12:33 PM

<div>Phil, I did not realize that my post was not the only victim of the delete button until after I reposted it. If I did, I may not have been so diplomatically ambiguous. ;^)
</div> <div>Too bad the software does not have the usual warnings and recycle bin back-up that we are all used to! </div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for letting us know!</div>

Registered on April 18, 2007, 953 Posts, 6435 Comments

Comment posted by May Haga on November 10, 2015 at 2:16 PM

Hi Wayne:
The good side of it being deleted for me is seeing it again. I think it is a very lovely image and I agree with leaving the bottom Out-of-Focus flower in the picture.
May

Registered on February 22, 2007, 714 Posts, 8470 Comments

Comment posted by Nathan Buck on November 10, 2015 at 7:08 PM

Still a great shot, Wayne! Really, really nice.

Nathan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1101 Posts, 13589 Comments

Comment posted by Larry Lynch on November 12, 2015 at 3:29 PM

Outstanding Wayne.

Registered on September 16, 2006, 773 Posts, 9940 Comments

Comment posted by Giuseppe Guadagno on November 19, 2015 at 1:27 PM

The repost is splendid Wayne!

Registered on February 3, 2007, 827 Posts, 5052 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Fach on November 22, 2015 at 6:36 PM

Wayne: A wonderful find and a superb capture. Most excellent. >=))> devil

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1805 Posts, 26981 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on November 27, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Hi Wayne

Exceptionally beautiful capture of the color and detail of this tiny flower. Congrats for a well deserved WP devil

Albert Darmo
Canada

Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments