Flower and bee

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Flower and bee

Postby Frankenstein on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:18 pm

I took these on a walk at Wentworth Falls (NSW Blue Mountains) last week...comments welcome please.

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Postby greencardigan on Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:23 pm

Great color and nice clean backgrounds.

Excellent :)
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Postby BT*ist on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:08 pm

Yeah, the pink is amazingly vibrant.

I like the tubular effect of the flower in the first : I was going to say you might even want to try a really close crop on the stamens (?), but the ones at the end that are standing up look really good...

(Are those water droplets in the second picture ??)
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Postby Killakoala on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:15 pm

Beautiful colours and nice and sharp too. YOu make that pentax sing :)
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Postby Finch on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:19 pm

Frank,

First shot is beautiful indeed. Great DOF, sharp, nicely composed. Vibrant colour of flower and contrast of bee makes this photo work.

Nicely done

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Postby avkomp on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:26 pm

the first one for me too.

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Postby Frankenstein on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:27 pm

Killakoala wrote:Beautiful colours and nice and sharp too. YOu make that pentax sing :)


Pentax??? Is that something like a GST for writing implements? :D (check my sig)
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Postby avkomp on Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:41 pm

Pentax??? Is that something like a GST for writing implements?


nope. pentax is a chopper with 5 blades

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Postby mudder on Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:47 pm

Gee the color is so brilliant, it's striking... You're making that lens work very, very well...
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Postby Slider on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:15 pm

Very nice Frank. Vibrant colour and nice composition in the first. Lovely Grevillea of some sort. Haven't seen that type up this way :D
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