Splendid lights effects Tara! Have a nice week

Everything about this is wonderful - the colors, the light, the shadows. Beautiful photo, Tara! (And why do I suddenly feel in a Christmasy mood...?)

Wonderful!

Yummy:* Fabulous composition and light!

Super contrasty colors and shadow Tars, well captured.

Great play of light and shade and great colour.

Nice blend of color!

Light and shadow and color, superb.

A summer dream! Marvellous. (that's about all OUR summer has been, in fact, a dream.)

superb composition

OH BOY! Its beautiful. Love the light/shade on the pot and the bright green colors of the leaves. A fabulous shot, Tara :-)))

Fantastic shot!

Love the light and the shadows. Nicely done!

This is a wonderful shot, the colors and shadows are beautiful.

Oh, how beautiful this is! Love the colour and light, and of course your dreamy satiny atmosphere :)

very beautiful. Its nice to have friends like that!

fantastic compo! the two tones are fabulous.

Hehe - they turned you loos because they knew what kind of beautiful art would result from it! This is just magnificent - the contrasting colors are wonderful as is the lighting - what a spectacular photo, Tara! You never cease to amaze me with your vision, dear friend!

Lovely, bright, sunny shot! Beautifully taken.. I have been trying to attempt some 'close up' shots of late.. lol Maybe I'll post one or two.. Rob

this is very lovely

oh what fun as the colors shine wonderful warm hugs, Linda Kaye

Red & green, shadow and light, the perfect Christmas combinations. This shot is getting us in the mood already, even though it's only early September.

Excellent Nice blend of the shadows and light Hugs Susan~

Those colors are amazing and I love the leaf-shapes and their complimentary shadows. This is gonna sound like typical Chip, but the shadows remind me of the backdrop to a butoh dance I saw back in my college days, while I was studying Japanese and really pretending to understand traditional Japanese theater, only butoh isn't that traditional, and it usually doesn't involve nice leaf-shadow shapes, but the dance I saw (it was deliciously grotesque) was performed against an amazing, leaf-inspired backdrop...it was like the stage had been miniaturized and placed in front of a nice print on really expensive, handmade paper, and this shot reminds me of that (without bald dancers in white body paint, grimacing with odd combinations of fruit clenched between their thighs. Ah, Butoh dancing...I like that stuff!) This shot has nothing to do with Japanese dance, and yet, that's what popped into my head when I saw those shadows. I also wondered at the size of that urn, and on an accidental riff on my comment for your post before this one, I wondered if Hej and all of those onion-worshipping people might actually use urns like these as flowerpots in which to grow their god-onions...hmmm...I think something's brewing. I love it when pictures start inspiring things. I was also thinking about butoh dancing, because of another story, so it's nice to see a kind of echo taking place. Art...it can get so recursive at times, and always surprisingly! Don't you just love that? This is a gorgeous image!

I'm just on for a moment (I STILL haven't gotten to everyone once, yet!), but I had to give at least one more comment to you before the week ended. You already know how I feel about your recent plane shots, but I guess I only praised this shot about 25 times. The sheer red & green is part of its allure, as is that blue spot on the vase---either a blue spot or a shadow or a flare. But the other beauty of this image is the play of leaves & shadows of leaves, against the tomato-red of the vase; and the way the leaves almost spill onto the vase, like a waterfall of shadows (as if the vase were an infinite field for them to play on). And: No sky, no ground, just like your plane shots; a zeroing-in on pure light & form & color. Yet the piece still feels like a glimpse into an 'inner' landscape, like there's something very deep behind that surface. And the amazing thing is, that vase for all we know could be a cheap thing, and this scene could be small & surrounded by very pedestrian sights. We'll never know, because your signature-way with closeups is that it creates a whole world out of a mere moment. That---one of your signature traits as a photographer---is the genuine magic of photography. (Don't show this to the original owner of the pot! They'll say, "he thinks our pot is cheap & small & pedestrian????" I"m just making a point, people! Chill out!) (You notice I haven't met these people & already we're in an argument???) (It's their fault. Ya need some decent neighbors...) Beautiful work, tara. I flipped when I saw this. I'll be back for more...