Pennywort

Excellent shot- perfect treatment of light and exposure, beautiful composition- Brava, Fabio

Barbara this is so lovely, beautiful work!

Wonderfully done Barbara! I love the colors in the background, and around where the stems enter the water. The reflections really just beg your eye to study them where the pads above are clearly separated, but the reflections are overlapping. Adds a neat dynamic to this shot. Great job!

Barbara, this is a lovely composition with excellent processing. Well done.
The plant looks like pennywort.

Not lily pads, for sure. Looks a little like Marsh marigold leaves. Someone here should know. Good image, whichever.

Later—pennywort it is.

Wow, cool image Barbara. Still trying to get my head around this one. It's the blue fading into black that confuses me. What is reflection and what isn't? Very nice work.

Thank you for the comments.

What I did was to clone out some other vegetation, as I said, and then use the paint bucket to even out the remaining color around the outside, which was blue. I used the paint bucket inside, too, in some spots, and I probably need to clean that up more, and that's probably what you're seeing, Charlie. The blue outside was too bright for me, so I tried just changing the hue/saturation of the blue, but I still didn't like it. So then I decided to change that blue to very, very dark. Most of the colors of the water on the inside weren't ever the same color as the water on the outside, so they didn't change. I was really, really surprised to see the pattern in the water that I could see at the edge of the inside water after darkening the outside water so much. That pattern was there, it just couldn't really be seen before.

But, yes, if I was going to use this image for anything I'd need to clean up a half dozen or so inside places more than I did here. I didn't mean to be lazy, though. I had spent so much time looking at it that I probably didn't see some of the little spots clearly enough.

Really nice light, comp, and detail. Well done Barbara

It's a very interesting image Barbara. To be honest I'm not quite sure what I think of it. I do like the light and the isolation but for me the patterns on the inside may be too dominant.

pat

I like the blue areas in among the vegetation....enhances the spot lighting effect. I also like the tonality of the reflections....they are rather dark and if forces the viewer to study the image a little longer, IMO. Nice stuff.

Gorgeous image Barbara, and exquisite processing. What a huge difference between your first images!! So proud of you.

Very nice Barbara. Great shot and excellent processing. Very nice.

Nathan

Barbara,
I like the comp, the light and the reflection. Great work.

This is a very artistic image. The best you have posted so far imo. Simple comp, great dark background to make the plants stand out, perfect exposure, and very nice light. Well done!

This is very nice Barbara. I love the way you've handled the colors. I also like the vignette effect you've created by darkening the water. Well done!

Lovely shot

Oscar

One word: wow:

Barbara: Work and ministry have kept me away for a couple of days so I'm late to this most excellent party. IMO this is your best image by far and I've been liking your recent work a lot. Superbly seen, captured and presented. >=))>

Barbara:
I do like this a lot. Very special color to the water with cool reflection. Very please to see you progress so quickly from literal to artsy images

Hi Barbara Morris said it all
Albert Darmo. Canada

Lovely exposure Barbara

Barbara, I was missing this beautiful photo, very impressive, full of mood. The stark vignetting is very effective.
Cheers.

Beautiful. Wonderful light! I missed it too, glad I saw it now.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Absolutely gorgeous light. The plant really pops out of the dark background. The reflections are a big plus.