Open Invitation - Let's have some fun
Oct 12, 2015 15:42:27 #
One of the most beautiful flowers to photograph for me is the Bird of Paradise. Currently I have four beautiful blooms on my plant all at the same time. I would love to see what my UHH friends can do with this image. I'm posting the original as the first one and my fantasy attack on it as the second image. Please join me in showing what you can do with this flower -- the sky is the limit, nothing too far out or too delicate or too exotic; let your creative self go and post your images when your through. Thanks in advance..This one should be fun.
Oct 12, 2015 15:53:29 #
Oct 12, 2015 16:04:48 #
Robert Graybeal wrote:
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Thank you Robert, I love this one and I see this one fitting into the abstract category. Very very nice and thanks again for your rendition. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Oct 12, 2015 18:10:50 #
Oct 12, 2015 18:16:35 #
angela k wrote:
Here's mine, Jim!
Oh heck yeah Angela, you've got it goin on with this one. Love, love love it. Thanks for playing my friend! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Oct 12, 2015 18:26:05 #
jwt wrote:
Oh heck yeah Angela, you've got it goin on with this one. Love, love love it. Thanks for playing my friend! :thumbup: :thumbup:
I'm out right now, so I might just play again if it's alright!
😁
Oct 12, 2015 18:57:31 #
Robert Graybeal wrote:
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Hey, Robert,
It looks like your contribution may have had considerable input from Dale Chiluly ... or that you've been influencing his glass works for some time!
Just beautiful!
Dave
Oct 12, 2015 19:02:31 #
angela k wrote:
I'm out right now, so I might just play again if it's alright!
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Absolutely and no limit on input..go for it Angela.
Oct 12, 2015 19:03:50 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hey, Robert,
It looks like your contribution may have had considerable input from Dale Chiluly ... or that you've been influencing his glass works for some time!
Just beautiful!
Dave
It looks like your contribution may have had considerable input from Dale Chiluly ... or that you've been influencing his glass works for some time!
Just beautiful!
Dave
How bout it Dave, let's see your input. I loved Robert's as well. :-D :-D
Oct 12, 2015 19:30:27 #
Oct 12, 2015 21:02:47 #
Back in 1968 when I was living with my grandmother in Kingsville, Texas, we went to visit her oldest living son (my dad was dead) in Chatsworth, California. That was the first time I saw a Bird of Paradise. I thought it was the most beautiful flower in the world.
We have billions of them here in the San Diego area. They can take urban pollution and drought (or overwatering) so they are the perfect plant for San Diego.
The blooms last so long that parts of the flower are brown and dead by the time the whole flower has bloomed, so when I came to live in San Diego in April 1993, I set out to find and photograph the most perfect Bird of Paradise flower. I finally succeeded on February 25, 2012, so I am finished taking pictures of these plants now, which thrills my friends because I don't stop at every bush looking for the perfect flower................
I wasn't happy with all the background distraction in your picture, common with these flowers, so I took it to Photoshop, darkened the background and then brightened the flower so it looks like I went out in the dark, shone a flashlight on it, and took a picture. Then I made it look like an oil painting. Here is my result:
We have billions of them here in the San Diego area. They can take urban pollution and drought (or overwatering) so they are the perfect plant for San Diego.
The blooms last so long that parts of the flower are brown and dead by the time the whole flower has bloomed, so when I came to live in San Diego in April 1993, I set out to find and photograph the most perfect Bird of Paradise flower. I finally succeeded on February 25, 2012, so I am finished taking pictures of these plants now, which thrills my friends because I don't stop at every bush looking for the perfect flower................
I wasn't happy with all the background distraction in your picture, common with these flowers, so I took it to Photoshop, darkened the background and then brightened the flower so it looks like I went out in the dark, shone a flashlight on it, and took a picture. Then I made it look like an oil painting. Here is my result:
Oct 12, 2015 21:12:52 #
LightTouch ....... after all the dark renditions, I thought it might be time for a change-up (and no one else had attempted it).
Oct 12, 2015 23:12:13 #
Oct 12, 2015 23:33:24 #
Oct 13, 2015 05:52:54 #
roadking11 wrote:
Beautiful flower, hope I have done it justice.
Beautifully done Roadking, I love that pebbled effect. Download is a must with your rendition. Thank you for joining in the fun, I really appreciate it. :-D :-D
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