After wandering through the San Diego Botanical Gardens hoping to come up with a knock-out shot, I saw this as my wife & I were leaving. A few of the Lily pads had some water spots/stains, so I reached into the water and sprinkled the pads & the flower.
One shot wonder.
Minor PP done (auto-level, selective adjustments to Black, Neutral & White levels, saturation & black adjustments to Yellow) to enhance the depth & color, cloned a few spots/specks and USM applied to the lightness channel.
Guess one of the other milestones I crossed with this shot was to place in the top row (4th place) of highest rated photographs with the Olympus E-10
Statistics
Place: 2 out of 215 Avg (all users): 7.2565 Avg (commenters): 9.0625 Avg (participants): 7.0560 Avg (non-participants): 7.6364 Views since voting: 7940 Views during voting: 277 Votes: 191 Comments: 45 Favorites: 34 (view)
First time I have missed the countdown and was
worse than a kid at Christmas time.
Thaks to everyone for their votes and comments, both
during and after the challenge. I was hoping for a top 5,
and was totally jazzed when I got home and found this as a Red!
Thanks again all, and I am in process of making the print a bit better. Update: It's done!
Regards,
Congratulations on your Ribbon for 2nd place. This was a superb picture. It got a 10 from me! Just beautiful! You did an excellent job capturing the beauty of this lily! Way to go!
Brad: Right on. Your talent is starting to scintillate. Congrats on your red and what an entry. I am very happy for you. Keep up the rush of good work.
voted yesterday, commenting today...THIS IS STUNNING! Composition, Colors, Focus, everything about this is wonderful! Congratulations on a beautiful job, this is in MY top 3!
WOW! This is beautiful! love how you captured both the details in the water lily as well as the lily pads. Great placement! And your lighting is superb! Great job!
Wow. I'm hoping for a top ten finish on my entry and it's entries like this that blow me away. Excellent excellent shot - 9.
Good focus, good dof and.....good feeling when you ribbon!
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