I took this shot of the wild flower known as Columbine in a weedy field in the Columbia River Gorge. It was the last picture I took during the morning session of the second day of my digital photography workshop. The afternoon of that second day was scheduled to be an image review session, and for the first day and a half, I'd been pretty intimidated about the critiques my pictures would get. However, when I snapped this shot, I knew that I had at least one picture that wouldn't embarrass me.
These are beautiful flowers. I love the vivid red petals and also the bright yellow stamen. Depending on your browser, the colors may be more faded for you than they are for me. I've tried three different browsers on two different machines, and it seems to vary somewhat. But it's still a lovely flower. I was fortunate to find it. Most specimens are quite a bit more ragged than this one was.
As with the landscape and waterfall shots, I've posted a poll on the right, asking you which flower image from my top 10 you prefer. I'm mostly just interested to see whether others thinks similar to me.
2 comments:
After seeing the “Wild tiger lily” image, I did not think you could have a better image. Now that you have posted “Columbine”, I am not sure. Nice!
This is very interesting. So far, the only people to vote for "Columbine" are the people who saw the image on my computer with Safari. Could be a coincidence, or it could mean that I need to do a better job matching the color for standard browsers.
I'd be interested to know whether visitors like the posted version or this one better. It appears that images on other machines more often look like they do on my machine if I reduce the brightness by 20%.
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