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Thursday 7 February 2008

Theme Thursday: Glow


I was so excited when I got this! AND its SOOC!!! I saw the last rays of the afternoon sun on my one little hibiscus flower and raced for the camera with Stacy's instructions in mind. I never did find the spot meter though and it took about 10 shots before I got this one. I just crouched and moved around the flower trying to catch the amazing natural light. Here's another one. To really appreciate them click on the image to see a large version.

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20 comments:

Maya said...

I love how the sun glows right through the delicate flower. Great shot!

Amy Jo said...

Just lovely. I wish we were having such lovely weather here, but it's been gray all week! Oh well.

Megan said...

wow -- that first one is fabulous! it looks so ethereal & definitely glows! glad you grabbed your camera before the light disappeared.

Phyllis Sommer said...

ooh beautiful. flowers? we haven't seen those in a while around here!

A Free Man said...

Very cool botanical porn ;)

Hopefully we're going to be posting some good news about Oz soon!

Arizaphale said...

Chris: Botanical porn hahahaha
Waiting with anticipation re Oz!

Fingers To Toes Photography said...

Those are so pretty, great great job!

Stacy said...

Beautiful shot! I love how the light is shiny through the delicate petals. Way to go!

chaoticfamily said...

So pretty - I love it. Really pretty flowers! Great shots.

Killlashandra said...

Wow, that first image is amazing! Wonderfully details on the petals. Way to go!

Maggie said...

Those shots are fantastic!! It definitely glows - what a great job you did!

I'm a tad jealous that you have anything like that around you...at the moment there is snow everywhere here - and although I love snow - it is COLD!

Christina said...

Gorgeous! Pretty soon you're going to have to stop saying that you don't know what you're doing with that camera of yours, as we won't believew you!!

Bonnie said...

I loooooooooove the first one ! Australia has the best flowers !! So many varieties and all soooo pretty !

Showing my photographic ignorance here. What is SOOC ?

You asked if I tried processing my first photo. I'd love to. I've just downloaded GIMP ( supposed to be like photo shop but free ) and I don't know how to use it ! I'm slowly playing but I think it will be while before I can properly process photos ! Filtering the noise would be great ...

What processing program do you use ?

Anonymous said...

That is an awesome glow! It's just lovely.

Brittany said...

Great great great great! What amazing shots. Summer flowers are the best!

Stacy said...

very cool and what a pretty color.

Anonymous said...

I really like the first one with the sun shining through the petals. Beautiful!

Bunny said...

This is gorgeous! (I'm a sucker for a good flower photos!)

Rose said...

Absolutely beautiful. I didn't get to play this week, things just piled up. But I have more time now just to enjoy shots like yours.

Warmly~
R

kim said...

wow, that's a great shot. perfect for 'glow'