Peony from the Past by bmac62

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jan 07, 2012

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...still fiddling with a handful of raw files from 2010 to get a handle on the process. Bill "Carbide and Carbon Building"

Comments (35)

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tennesseecowgirl

7:37PM | Sun, 08 January 2012

beautiful job on this Bill.

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Chipka

2:11PM | Mon, 09 January 2012

Peonies are the first flowers I learned the names of and that's because I grew up in a house surrounded by them and they're the only flowers that didn't strike me as foo-foo neo-bourgeois uselessness. I was a weird child with odd socio-political attitudes and, according to neighbors, unnatural interests. But I digress. This is a fantastic composition, and I love the way that color seems to be such a profound aspect of the composition. I always go for assymetry as it makes for very, very interesting photography. It's that Fibonacci spiral thing at play...the main blossom defines that spiral and so the whole picture has a focus that isn't where that rule of thirds rule tells you it should be. How fun is that? Well, I'm tickled pink by it. The DOF is super too...it's a bit cinematic...like the peony is getting her closeup, while the other flowers are just doing their thing, not necessarily a part of the drama at hand. And so now, I wonder, what's this blossoms's story? This is super.

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