Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/16/05 1:40 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@gmail.com wrote: > These are wild oats. > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/04/16/_L3U1770.jpg> > > I happen to really like the colors in the background. > I like the BG colors too, they compliment the color of the oats' outer sheath well. The one thing that spoils it for me is the one out-of-focus oat in the lower left, otherwise I'd say it was just right. > This is an artichoke thistle - beautiful but the spines are sharp and > they are nasty invasive that even goats won't eat. > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/04/16/_L3U1766.jpg> > IMHO too much separation between the purples and the greens of the spiny leaves if that's what they are. It's hard to see the relationship between them, and w/o that relationship I don't know what the purple has to do with the rest of the picture. You know I'm being picky, don't you? > While photographing some grass fronds I came up way too close to this > monster. I don't know what it is, I don't WANT to know. I have a thing > about these beasties, but I did a few shots anyway. I'm glad I don't > look too closely at what's in the grass! > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/04/16/_L3U1784-crp.jpg> > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2005/04/16/_L3U1790-crp.jpg> An arachnid of some kind... I like your use of colors in these two. The arachnid is the only non-green thing in the pictures, which helps it stand out, yet it's not out of place as the purple of the thistle seems to be because I can see the arachnid is using the green plants. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com