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Spirits of Trees
Spirits of Trees
Sachlichkeit


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Challenge: Flora II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
Date: Oct 4, 2007
Aperture: 11
ISO: 125
Shutter: 10
Date Uploaded: Oct 9, 2007

 Flora: The plants or plant life of any particular region or epoch

I'm expecting to compete against alot of flower pictures, and maybe that's what the community is expecting to see. But I love this shot. If anyone's wondering, I got the name from an ee cummings poem:

'i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)'

Post:

Swapped color channels
Contrast
Hue/saturation
Some toying around with the histogram to correct for color imbalances

First challenge, I'll be happy with anything above a 5

After the fact:

Yay! Above a 5 and 107 out of 332...I can live with that

Statistics
Place: 106 out of 325
Avg (all users): 5.6494
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4444
Avg (non-participants): 5.8293
Views since voting: 876
Views during voting: 232
Votes: 154
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/17/2007 07:11:32 AM
I wish, haha! Thanks everyone for the comments and votes!!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/16/2007 12:29:05 PM
I don't think there's any doubt, this is top 10, probably a ribbon winner, well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2007 03:00:16 AM
great picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2007 04:05:06 PM
clouds seam to be more in focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2007 11:24:35 AM
Wow this is a really nice shot. I ove the background against the colors of the trees. Nicely done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/10/2007 11:15:21 AM
Creativity=1 (yeah infared, we get it)
Focus=1.5
Contrast=1
Lighting=1.5
Comp=2


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