Garden-Monthly Challenge

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted May 1, 201159 views8 comments

Image was taken today, May 1, of The Quilt Garden at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina. The spring planting of this garden consists of over 4,000 violas, pansies and nemesia. The Arboretum is one of my favorite places to photograph as their gardens are forever changing. As I was photographing this garden today, a wedding was in progress just behind the garden wall.

Camera is a Nikon D7000, manual focus, initial processing in Nik Software's Viveza and then back to Photoshop where I applied the Palette Knife filter. A final stop back to Viveza to saturate the color a bit and add some structure.

I hope this processing fits the criteria for the monthly challenge. Comments always welcome. Thanks for viewing this image.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on May 1, 2011 at 10:30 PM

Hi Barbara, I like the patterns in the image and I like the treatment. Can't speak to whether it fits the challenge or not; I've been remiss in not keeping up these days.

I think I would be very tempted to clone some yellow flowers in the lower left corner to add some balance to the image, but I might be totally off base. The suggestion comes because the lines in that general area are somewhat askew.

Cheers,

Carol

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on May 1, 2011 at 11:15 PM

It reallly does look like a quilt. Lovely patterns, texures and colors.

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Comment posted by David W. Kelly on May 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Very nice Barbara and it definitely has a painterly quality. Thanks for the explanation of your technique. A very nice image.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on May 2, 2011 at 3:33 PM

Very nice colors and textures. And it looks very painterly. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on May 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM

Sure looks like an early impressionist painting to me. I like the repeated patterns in the "quilt".

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Comment posted by scott lanz on May 2, 2011 at 10:54 PM

Very impressionistic. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Barbara Sammons on May 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM

Thanks to everyone for your comments and feedback. I really like this month's challenge and hope to post more. I'm going to try Topaz Labs' Simplify to see what results I can achieve.

Thanks again for taking a view at my images.

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on May 17, 2011 at 10:52 AM

Very nice. Probably just my aesthetic bias, bu only nit is it looks very symmetrical and centered. Great colors and textures.

lucy

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