Canna leaf #2 by goodoleboy
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My favorite leaf, captured 8/29/13, early morning, about an eighth of a mile from home.
Reminds me of Andrea's doodles or jocko500's infrared/UV stuff.
Caught this beauty, one of two leaves that I snapped, mere moments after the sun had cleared the roof tops and partially backlit the specimen. The temperatures have been in the 80s and 90s Fahrenheit for several days already, so the plants in the area have taken a severe beating sun and temperature-wise. A withering 108.1-degrees Fahrenheit in my patio today. Welcome to the Great Southwest.
Meticulous postwork was performed on the image to bring out the contrast and desaturate the colors.
Toodles, and have a nice day.
Comments (8)
johndoop
Beautiful leaf Well done!!!!!!!!
MrsRatbag
These leaves are almost as lovely as the flowers; amazing the colour nature puts into them. Great capture and postwork, Harry!
magnus073
Nice work on capturing the colorful details of this leaf, Harry
durleybeachbum
A dynamic compo and a very colourful leaf.
mbz2662
Beautiful, Harry. I love the colors and light you caught. Very nicely done. Today was crazy, weather-wise, in my part of So-Cal. Extreme temps, over 100 and downpours. It was like a sauna. Needless to say, I hibernated indoors, trying to minimize any movement.
drifterlee
It almost looks like a fractal!
angora
beautiful!! and the leaf behind it too! love the contrast!!
anahata.c
108 degrees? Are you ___ing me??? Do you guys have heat indexes too? It must be around 120...I hope you're staying cool...you do a lot of shooting in the early morning, at least that's a help in scorching day heat. Well for boiling hot days, this is a big bold flame. Really, I've said this before, but you have abstraction coursing through your veins: This is not only an eye-popping shot of a plant, but a dazzling abstract. You let that front leaf just jut into the shot, ka-boom, without balancing it with any plant on the other side: It's aggressive and wholly arresting. And the hues---you said you used meticulous postwork: Well, I'm sure you did, but the result is more real rather than less, as the leaf, rather than transformed, seems to be broadcasting its actual hues in their fullest array: Terrific separation of hue and line---it's 'super-real', like an abstract painting or surreal stained glass. Even the leaf directly behind has a stunning presence. Then you got the house and yard on a tilt, as if the powerful leaf pushed everything over, a big jut of a leaf, tilting the whole place sideways by its brute force. Very finessed postwork, and at the same time non-intrusive: The shot is just 'moreso' rather than a different shot. This popped off the page when I first saw it, I almost came out of 'retirement' then and there to comment. First rate image of the true inner patterns of nature. And your postwork is razor sharp.