Just for Fun No C&C will be given: The Cosmos

I shot this Cosmos today. A simple, yet elegant flower.











I hope these two facets have been conveyed.

Conveyed indeed. What I like is how you let the image do the talking and got out of the way. Very easy for a shot to concentrate on the photographer instead of the subject. Beautifully done and quiet kudos to you.

Thanks Bill (if I may call you that), I'm glad you're in agreement.

Wade Skinner said:

I shot this Cosmos today. A simple, yet elegant flower. I hope these two facets have been conveyed.

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Wade,

This is just the way I love available light portraits, soft, delicate and understated like a beautiful young girl in a fine house who one incidentally sees when at some elegant families home. The same flower can exhibited sharply defined with every physical attribute advertised. Your approach is very satisfying and gives a far more subtle and understated disclosure of what is so precious and pretty.

Shooting from underneath, like this is a rarely used point of view and shows a photographer stalking the subject for a new angle of form composition and light capture. Excellent motivation and result.

Could you share more of this shoot. I'd highly recommend planning a series of such shots to unite your inner framework of expression in a substantial body of work as one picture is interesting but a series in convincing.

I express no negatives since right now, this is just my enjoyment while I savor my first cup of British tea this morning and I'm chilling!

Thanks for sharing.

Asher

Hello Wade

Lovely delicate shot of one of my favourite flowers.

We have masses of them in our garden every year, I love their delicacy, and the fact that they flower for several months.

I have many shots of them, also some shot from underneath as you have shown here, thank you for reminding me of the summer!

janet Smith said:

Hello Wade

Lovely delicate shot of one of my favourite flowers.

We have masses of them in our garden every year, I love their delicacy, and the fact that they flower for several months.

I have many shots of them, also some shot from underneath as you have shown here, thank you for reminding me of the summer!

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Janet,

These are also easy to grow from the seeds the flowers produce. Great fun for kids! Show your pictures too!

Asher

Asher Kelman said:

Janet,

These are also easy to grow from the seeds the flowers produce. Great fun for kids! Show your pictures too!

Asher

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Yes Janet,

Please add your photos too.

Hi Wade,

Just a quick reaction first ting in the morning.. This is a lovely shot, very gentle and quiet, with beautiful light and colour.

Mike

As requested here are some of my Cosmos.

That's great Jan. Thanks for adding them to the "collection".

You've got some very colorful ones there.

With which lens did you shoot the bee photo?

Kind Regards

Wade Skinner

Wade Skinner said:

With which lens did you shoot the bee photo?

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It would have been my Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens.

Great photo, Wade. I like the subtle and pastel colours in this. Nice composition.