Spring Cascade

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 23, 2011551 views16 comments

A spectacular trillium bloom, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan, taken during a circle tour of Lake Superior in May. Eastern flowers can't compete with the ridiculous flower displays out West, this is about as good as it gets this side of the Mississippi. More info about the making of this image can be found in my photoblog article titled Don’t Wear “Pre-Visualization Blinders”.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by Phil Pogledich on June 23, 2011 at 6:41 PM

Spectacular indeed. Great shot, great title . . . must really have been a sight to see!

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Comment posted by Kory Lidstrom on June 23, 2011 at 8:16 PM

Nice find! A classic comp, well executed.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on June 23, 2011 at 8:20 PM

Beautiful. I really enjoy looking at this. Wonderful just with the flowers, but with this background it is even better. Nice work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Matt Anderson on June 23, 2011 at 9:22 PM

A photo at or near midday ????

Beautiful! Refreshing.

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Comment posted by Jeff Loomis on June 23, 2011 at 11:15 PM

Wow, that's quite a patch of Trillium! The warmer tones in the bg are a nice contrast. I love the comp and the dof is key to showing off the depth.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on June 24, 2011 at 2:09 AM

Ian,

What a glorious display of trillium. Classic, but outstanding composition giving a good proportion of flowers and bg trees.

Not a fault or a nitpick, but the edges of the leaves are quite "edgy" - almost like when you have a final jpg open in PS at only 67% of the full view - it kinda has that over-sharpened look which of course goes away when you view at 100%? Anyway, I know this is not over sharpened and what we're looking at is natural, so I'm not really sure where I was going with this... never mind. It's a beautiful image.

So true, but the way about pre-visualization. Actually, not so much pre-visualization, but being focus on one goal that you tend to lose sight of what else surrounds you. I think we all fall in to that at one point or another - and often more than once. ;-)

Lon

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Comment posted by Peter Richter on June 24, 2011 at 4:16 AM

Ian, I think it was a rather difficult lighting, and you handled it extremely well in my opinion. A beautiful presentation of the scene to me, I like how you show the energy of this bright spring day.

Peter

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on June 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Hey, haven't seen many posts from you lately - must have been on an adventure somewhere. Nice shot here - excellent perspective. Like this a lot.

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Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on June 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM

Lovely flower scene, the perspective is great and well chosen, must be a blast to look at large!

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Comment posted by Jerry Greer on June 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM

Awesome Dudeski!

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Comment posted by Tom Haxby on June 24, 2011 at 4:30 PM

Thanks for sharing. This is wonderful and makes me wish I had not missed the trillium bloom this year.

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Comment posted by Bruce Omori on June 24, 2011 at 5:20 PM

Very nice, Ian! We don't have any sort of wild flower blooms here. You're lucky to have this!

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Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on June 24, 2011 at 11:07 PM

Amazing profusion of trillium. Well composed and nice balanced lighting.

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Comment posted by Marc Adamus on June 25, 2011 at 1:47 PM

Ian, I sure hope you know how much I always admire your imagery. This is no exception here! I've never seen a photo of this place before and the way you've captured and processed it is truly beautiful.

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Comment posted by Steve Sieren on June 27, 2011 at 12:08 PM

Excellent work Ian!

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Comment posted by Rafael Rojas on June 27, 2011 at 4:45 PM

Really lovely back-lighting in those petals...the image sings. It was refreshing seeing flowers in a different than soft light conditions. The glowing forest in the background also adds a ton of ambiance here. Magical forest indeed...well done!

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