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Collection: 2008-08 30 Days of Flowers
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Occoquan, VA
Date: Aug 20, 2008
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 21, 2008

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Comments: 11
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 Day 22 of 30 Flowers

Spent a few hours yesterday at a wildlife refuge looking for wildflowers. Rather peaceful as for most of the time I was the only human for miles around! This was growing down near the Occoquan Bay and I believe it to be a Thicket Bean. It looked really pretty to me amongst the grasses.

PP - converted from RAW, cut the right edge and moved it closer to the flower (merged in "if lighter" mode), cropped, decreased gamma and increased contrast, shifted hue a little to green (it was too yellow-green for my taste), added border, resized, sharpened.

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 08/28/2008 08:24:41 PM
I like it the way it is, but one could get another crop out of this as a second image, with a portrait style crop.
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 08/24/2008 08:05:33 AM
I like the flower but the orangey grasses on the left are what especially works for me. I like how DOF plays with the different strands against the deep green of the BG. Another excellent shot in every way.
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 08/22/2008 08:53:12 PM
Although it lacks the WOW factor that you have in many of your shots, this is still a quite pleasing photo. It's nice to see wildflowers shown off.
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 08/22/2008 03:31:19 PM
A very delicate image.
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 08/22/2008 03:07:08 AM
as a thumb this was something i really looked forward to opening ..
then .. WOW .. love the deep intense green and the way that flower stands out so beautifully against it . the stalks with their orangey tops contrast so well with the surrounding colours ... a brilliant image in every way .. :)
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 08/21/2008 06:43:04 PM
A lonely little blip of prettiness out there in the wasteland.
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 08/21/2008 05:54:24 PM
this is a beauty!
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 08/21/2008 02:37:26 PM
Delicate, lovely and isolated.
Nice story-telling.
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 08/21/2008 07:02:58 AM
It's a treat to see the wildflower shots--you have made the wind visible in this one, I can almost feel the sun on my skin.
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 08/21/2008 06:29:28 AM
they remind me of earlobes
i like the color of the flower against the dark green background
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 08/21/2008 06:28:29 AM
So little and so lonely in such a cruel world. I wish there was a little more light on the flower. The image is somewhat flat. imho
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