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Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:13 pm**

Exercise in Style - February 2006:

Botany

Submissions between 1-28 February 2006

THE RULES:

IMPORTANT: There are no prizes. This is not a challenge. It is an exercise...
1. All members are urged to participate with photos taken in the current month
2. All makes and models of camera accepted, FSLR, DSLR, P&S, pin hole, MF, LF
3. All method of Post Processing (PP) allowed- unless 'theme' states otherwise
4. Only one (1) image per member
5. Submissions valid between the 1st and last day of the month.
6. You may do more PP after posting your image
7. First person who posts an appropriate image gets to choose theme for next month
8. Thats about it!

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:22 pm**

I think you need to check your dates

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:23 pm**

Oops, edited!

Thanks Scott!

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:24 pm**

I can still see a mistake :p

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:28 pm**

Is it ok now ?

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:29 pm**

hehe.. yep and now stickied

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:01 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:Exercise in Style - February 2006:

Bontany

Submissions between 1-28 February 2006

What's bontany? :lol:

Sorry Craig... ;-)

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:05 pm**

leek wrote:What's bontany?
Sorry Craig...

(I'm INSANE!!!!) or going that way

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:18 pm**

leek wrote:What's bontany?
Sorry Craig...

botany
(Say 'botuhnee)

noun (plural botanies)

1. the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals with plant life.
2. the plant life of an area: the botany of the Simpson Desert.
3. the biology of a plant or plant group: the botany of deciduous trees.
4. a botanical system or treatise: outlined in 19th-century botanies.

Cheers

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:44 pm**

A place near the airport :roll:

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:46 pm**

sirhc55 wrote:A place near the airport

*groan*

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:50 pm**

What the hell - may as well be the first one off the rank.
This is a shallow DOF shot of the Smooth Darling Pea, Swainsona galegifolia

, a perennial shrub often found on hill slopes with shallow sandy and/or stony soils

Rel

Shot of the flower used as a diagnostic feature of the plant in question - essential in the study of botany

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:52 pm**

Lovely stuff Rel!

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:04 pm**

Thanks Alpha - come on guys, what's going on??????

Rel

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:20 pm**

Post Xmas Apathy, it's hard to get back into motivation mode.

But I'll try.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:28 pm**

OK, I know it's not very sharp, but just making up the numbers.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:19 pm**

I don't mind it. The lack of sharpness is offset by the saturation and contrast in the colours, gives it a nice warm feel. Thats what I thinks anywhoo...

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:50 pm**

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:15 pm**

Fantastic lighting Chris.
p.s. did you go anywhere near Botany to take this shot? :wink:

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:14 am**

heres my effort a wisteria.
pa.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:01 pm**

Taken with the Nikon 105mm today at Cataract Dam...
1/800s f4

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:16 pm**

Great shot and bokeh, John.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:37 pm**

Nnnnsic wrote:Great shot and bokeh, John.

Yeah... not bad, but I should have crouched down even lower to eliminate the lighter bokeh...

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:24 pm**

its not a exactly pretty, and it is a weed, but it is still a plant so here's mine.

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:42 pm**

NJ wrote:its not a exactly pretty, and it is a weed, but it is still a plant so here's mine.

Nice shot Nathan... having had a few attempts at this, I know how difficult they are to capture... I particularly like the ball in the middle...

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:50 pm**

leek wrote:Nice shot Nathan... having had a fewe attempts at this, I know how difficult they are to capture... I particularly like the ball in the middle...

thanks leek, wasnt sure how people would take this, thought they might just think...its a weed...

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:33 pm**

NJ wrote:its a weed...

Weeds are just flowers in the wrong place...

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:22 pm**

NJ wrote:its not a exactly pretty, and it is a weed, but it is still a plant so here's mine.

I like this one NJ - very nice

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:41 pm**

Heres one from me.

Taken up at Toowoomba last week.

Flowering Eucalypt - (Red Flowering Gum) Corymbia ficifolia

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:46 pm**

my favourite is chris one.

love the lighting on this
has real "pop"
is this in a light box??

like the red hot poker too.

waiting for someone to post a shot of botany bay.......

Steve

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:48 pm**

good efforts everyone but NJ that image is excellent love the lighting it aint pretty but there is beauty in that image, the contrast and mood especially.

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:58 pm**

heres mine ...

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:37 am**

Crikey, I've missed this whole thread till now!

I love a lot of the stylised and dramatic pictures posted so far, but Chris' shot blew me away. It can't say exactly why, but it makes me think I'm looking at flowers, not an image of flowers. Absolute magic. Gives a whole new meaning to the word "photorealism"... Is this a light-tent job?

Cheers
Steffen.

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:45 pm**

With Valentines day on the way we should have plenty of material to work with! And the week after - probably plenty of dead material...

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:37 pm**

[img]http://www.fototime.com/{37E4829A-F20E-4BFD-94CB-9891D003EFD1}/picture.JPG[/img]

Posted: **Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:44 pm**

50mm, f3.2, 1/1600, iso200

Posted: **Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:54 pm**

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:02 pm**

well, I'll have a go - just a straggly thing I noticed on a bushwalk at Wentworth Falls last week. The other entries so far have been pretty hot - I've been very impressed.

f4.8, 1/500, 70-300 lens with 1+ close up filter

Frank

Posted: **Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:21 pm**

Not sure if this counts, but a picture of a corsage taken of a wedding the past weekend...

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:36 pm**

Alpha, can I pick the theme for next month???? If I can, I would like to chose 'structure' ...... don't know if it's been done before, if so, let me know and I'll change it

structure n.
*Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way: hierarchical social structure.
*The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup: triangular in structure.
*The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity: political structure; plot structure.
*Something constructed, such as a building.
Biology.
*The arrangement or formation of the tissues, organs, or other parts of an organism.
*An organ or other part of an organism.

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:46 pm**

blacknstormy wrote:Alpha, can I pick the theme for next month???? If I can, I would like to chose 'structure'

As poster of the first image in this exercise, I believe that that is your right Rel... :lol:

Cut/Paste the text from the last challenge into a new thread with appropriate changes and It'll become the next exercise... A moderator will be along in due course to unsticky this thread and sticky yours...

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:55 pm**

Here's mine:

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:46 am**

this is kind of wild plant species,i dont know name.it grows near by rise feilds in village area.

handheld at f5,

i think its too late to post now.sorry i wasnt able to upload last days cuz of m isp prob here.

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