Laurie this is so beautiful! I can't get over how clean and perfect this is for this challenge. And I didn't get to finish all the voting on this challenge to give it the 10 I would have given it! Congratulations on a top 10 finish again! :)
This is just so wonderful, bright clear and so perfect for Zen. Congratulations Laurie, on achieving not only front page but a great score as well..... You rock girl.....
(Love the colour)there are so many nice submitions. I motion for a get together of photographers. I am by no means one myself, but the opertunity to have an event and to swap ideas and pool your general knowlage would be, I think, a good thing. The opertunity to share points of view, to communicate your way of looking at things, to suck the whole visual potential out of the moment and photograph it all. To convay your experiances to the world in the most direct way possible. To be poets of the lens. To show the world life, where most of the rest of the world sees desolation, money or, 'just another tree' or 'just another sun-beam'. The importance of art is to comunicate, and the focus of photography is communicating the now. I think a good photograph moves as you look at it, is inspired to be more than ink on paper, but a living reflection of the universe. Please pass this on.
"WOW"..... I love this, as the colors are just so clear and sharp.
What a beautiful butterfly, so still, and so perfect, in every way.....
A balance of nature at ir very best and suits the challenge so well.....
This is a gorgeous shot, meets the challenge well, for what I feel the standards of a zen shot should be. It is quiet, minimal and serene. Very pretty use of minimal color, gorgeous shade of green. Great job from the 'Great Job Baggie'!