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28-JUN-2009

07/06/09 - Wildflower Meadow

Wild wildflowers (as opposed to in a garden). The biggest difference (to me) is that I'm many more times likely to come home with ticks when wading through the tall grasses & plants to get at the "wild"flowers.
Recently had an opportunity to watch other photographers make flower images. Almost without exception they were making "botany text book" images - sharp throughout with no creativity. The subsequent critiques inspired them to go out and make the flowers even MORE sharp with the background and surround getting only secondary consideration.
I think we all go through that stage. One of my "later stages" involved using additional background flowers in very soft focus to "echo" the main subject as illustrated here. Nothing great nor exceptional but if you shoot a rose straight on just like millions of other rose photos you will be prone to getting the same critique that I did five years ago when submitting the "world's greatest rose print" (IMO) for my first ever photo critique session. I was crestfallen to hear "It's a beautiful rose - but as a photograph it's just another rose that we've all seen 1,000's of times". Now I understand what was meant & how true it was.

Nikon D300
1/250s f/5.3 at 90.0mm iso200 full exif

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waterfalls man07-Jul-2009 02:53
Great Shot V !!!
angelique raptakis06-Jul-2009 19:46
looks like the deer had a nibble on this mexican hat :)