maleficent

that's beautiful...

__________________

StanT

A couple new ones from this weekend.

Fly

what a sweet thread Stan...........lovin' this.

__________________
BASTARD

SterlingStudios

StanT

What can I say, it's Columbine season.

maleficent

the color in the first one is beautiful - -how far did you hike to get to it...

__________________

StanT

The hike was about 3 miles and pretty reasonable (for Colorado). The drive to the trailhead is another story, I'm afraid to look under my car.

kurty[B]

awesome shots Stan! The Columbines have been in full glory these past two weeks!

Meditrina

Hi. I'd like to share a picture I took of the poppy flowers that are growing in my yard. The people who lived here before me must have planted them. The pic is not nearly as good as all of those above, I took it with my Kodak EasyShare.



Thanks for letting me share.

__________________
"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

genuinegirly

Paddyjoe, the photo of the white bulbs are incredible! Wish I had wildflowers like those around here!

__________________
"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq

"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

StanT

Another hike, another new flower.

JumpinJesus

The air in the Columbine photos looks so crisp and clear. There are some fantastic photos in this thread.

__________________
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

StanT

Went for a ride on my motorcycle, on the side of the road:

kurty[B]

Great pictures everyone, here are a few I took back in July.

tropicdiver

Spring is here, again. Snapped these few shots south of Dallas, yesterday.

__________________
Bob
Life is short. Break some rules.

Sty

ah nice saturation tropic, bumped it up a bit yes?

The car on the first one really spoils the picture for me, too bad...

The second one is very good indeed, the shack brings much needed contrast to the picture.

3rd one has a lot of promise, but I can't help thinking all the time that a different composition could have made it a stunning picture. Maybe b&w with violent sky, subdued colors... the works.

__________________
br,
Sty

I route, therefore you exist

bobby

...........amazing what just grows everywhere

__________________
"Life goes on,within you,and...with out you !" xoxoxoo

little_tippler

beautiful wild flowers everyone! It's springtime, can't help but feel elated, especially after seeing so many beautiful flowers...

__________________
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Eweser

Beautiful pictures everyone!

__________________
"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

StanT

Tis the season to ressurect an old thread.

I had some difficulty with depth of field on this one, a reminder that I need to pick up a macro lens before I run off to Switzerland in a few weeks.


Purple Fringe

skibum

Very nice shots people.

If this year is anything like last year, will have shots of tons of them come the first weekend in August. Yet again this year hiking to the headwaters of the middle St. Vrain. Its a long hike (depending on if you can get up the 4X4 road or not its 8-16 miles round trip hiking) so it keeps foot traffic down, and when you get up there its basically impossible to walk without stepping on wildflowers. As for recent stuff, when I get more time later tonight I will post up what I got this weekend.

Ok.... large post from the weekend trip. Went up to a little pond that is a little ways off the beaten path. The pond is full of lilies, and they are in bloom. The exposure on these is very much a PITA. The RAW files show well over half the shot has clipped shadows... except for the flower. It is half clipped on the shadows, and half blown highlights. lol. There is almost no in between. There is little editing on the first few, and no editing on the last bunch. Hopefully they look as good to everyone as they do to me as I sit editing in the dark. Sorry for the overabundance of one kind of flower, I can't decide which shots I like best.







From here on there is no editing, just a black frame added.









this and the last are the same flower, this one just shot vertical.




and finally, flowers that are kinda different. Sadly enough on all except the columbine I didn't even look at where I was aiming. Just held the camera close with a 10mm lens and shot away.







and finally the last shot. Sorry if I bored you all. lol