Water Lily w/repost

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Posted by Craig Strand on August 5, 2011 at 3:45 PM

Image taken at Hughes Water Gardens, Tualatin. A great spot in Portland area for shooting aquatic flowers. This is a stack of 7 images

I know some may find the small pieces of duckweed by the lily pad distracting, but I decided to leave it in place.

canon 7D
canon 100mm f2.8 IS USM
F/22 -1 1/50 ISO 100
tripod, cable, CS4, LR2, NIK software suite

Posted by Marylynne Diggs on August 5, 2011 at 4:12 PM

Lovely, Craig. I like the composition and the frame with purple. I can imagine the flower a little lower and to the left, just so its face is not too far right of center, but it's great as is. Very nice treatment.

Posted by Douglas Dietiker on August 5, 2011 at 5:45 PM

Details and color are just fantastic, it really stands out nicely. I dont know what was on the right of the framing, but I agree with Marylynne. But it certainly is very nice as is.

Posted by Craig Strand on August 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, correction repost

Posted by Marylynne Diggs on August 6, 2011 at 1:24 PM

I like this one better, Craig. It seems more balanced to me and the flower's face is looking into space instead of out of the frame.

Posted by Douglas Dietiker on August 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM

Very nice repost. Excellent

Posted by David Bostock on August 7, 2011 at 1:53 PM

Repost works for me too, Craig. Excellent work, and wonderful image.

Posted by Cliff Dodge on August 9, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Beautiful!

Posted by Catherine Reilly on August 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM

Goodness, Craig, what beautiful work! Love the repost and really enjoy the comp with pad and duckweed as shown. I'd encourage you to post this one in the Flora IC Gallery. Some eyes oughta pop over there on sight of this!

Posted by John Williams on August 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM

Just a stunner Craig! The second is my pick. I too would post this to Flora.