Wake Up
by Yomi

Comment by sfalice:
Soft and delicate. Nice work.

Wake Up
by Yomi

Comment by drydoc:
I'm up! I'm up! nicely done.

Wake Up
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Comment by JerseyGenie:
I just instructed my husband NOT to pull up the weed he wanted to get rid of ... a Lily. Maybe I'll show him your shot when he gets home so he knows what that weed will deliver soon.

Wake Up
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Comment by one2one:
Those stamens look very fragile. I rarely see yellow lilies, the ones around here are mostly orange and found in the wild.

Wake Up
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Comment by MaryO:
A lovely lily :-) Love the DOF; it's sharp in just the right places to show this beauty off.

Wake Up
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Comment by sherpet:
What a vivid lemon yellow color, and so clear and bright.
The dark add to the impact of this fine flower image.....
Well done, and I look forward to seeing more from you.

Thanks you for sharing this floral image with us.
Our journey has just begun.....

Wake Up
by Yomi

Comment by Maggye:
I love the colors and the detail, nicely done

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Comment by SaraR:
Just shows how subjective our appreciation of art and photography is - for me, it is the negative space that gives the photo the impact. It somehow reinforces the fragility of the single seed head, almost as a metaphor for the fragility of life in general, and to emphasise the minuteness of an individual life in terms of the wider universe. On a technical note, I might prefer a very slightly wider dof, so that the front of the dandelion head is also in focus, but nonetheless, I like this piece very much.

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Comment by raish:
dof is typically smaller at closer distances - doesn't have anything directly to do with the camera ... but ... you can jack the D700 up to some pretty high ISO, which would enable you to use narrower apertures ...

The rule is that you get nothing for nothing, and I may be thinking D3 when I talk about high ISO without too much noise, but suck it and see, as you have the camera you lucky bastard :-)

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Comment by Wyrdling:
I think the focus is just right, but I really don't like the composition - a square crop could improve it a lot. (It's all the negative space to the left - the line of the dandelion 'thingie' leads your eyes to a abrupt blank nothingness! A tighter crop would keep the focus (the non-technical one that is) at the plant itself.)