The Climber

Gallery: FloraPosted July 9, 201085 views11 comments

Wasn't sure at first whether this belonged in flora or in ESS, but seeing that the granite clearly bears the hand of man, it will be my first post in the flora gallery. This image was captured at Elephant Rocks SP in MO last month. I was first attracted to the lone green vine against the granite. After looking at the original image, I decided to selectively desaturate all of the color channels except green to really emphasize the vine. Comments and critiques much appreciated. D200, 18-200VR @ 29mm, 0.8 sec @ f/8, ISO 100, tripod.

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11 comments

Comment posted by David W. Kelly on July 9, 2010 at 2:04 PM

Love the contrast between the rock and the leaves. This is really nice.

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Comment posted by David Cobb on July 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM

Love the how the leaves stand out against the rock Matthew, I also like the wonderful use of negative space here too.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on July 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM

Matthew: Welcome to the finest Flora gallery on the planet where our motto is if it grows, it goes. Well seen and great decisions on the processing. Great to have you aboard and hope to see more. >=))>

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on July 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM

I'm a big fan of minimalist composition Matthew and this has a lot of appeal to me. Love the desaturation in the processing. My only suggestion would be to go ahead and clone out the leaf and some of the other small organic pieces on the rock face. Hope you'll continue to post here. I enjoyed this.

Pat

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Comment posted by Kathy Odiorne on July 9, 2010 at 6:57 PM

Welcome to Flora, Matthew. Very nice first post. I likde the contrast between the plant and the rock. Amazing how these things seem to grow out of nowhere

Hope to see more of your work

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on July 9, 2010 at 8:25 PM

The contrast makes for a winner with this one. Well done!

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Comment posted by Michael Lowe on July 10, 2010 at 3:40 AM

Works for me. Nice shot.

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Comment posted by Miro Susta on July 10, 2010 at 4:49 AM

Beautiful green colour and exelent contrast. Nicely done Matthew. I'd crop the upper part to remove the small holes in the rock.

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Comment posted by Doug Benner on July 10, 2010 at 8:18 AM

Really nice presentation of the different textures. Nicely seen and captured.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on July 10, 2010 at 6:37 PM

Wonderful textures in this and a fine composition, Matthew, and your saturation choices seem just right to me. The ? drill holes to the top are an intriguing feature. A striking image altogether.

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Comment posted by Chad Merrell on July 12, 2010 at 11:49 PM

Very nice. I find it very hard to make more than a "pretty flower picture" when shootingflora. this is more than that. This is art.

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