It’s been a long summer and some of the wildflowers in our garden have seen better days:
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It’s a small act of endurance to live in this spot in the garden. The flowers that grow there are subject to heavy rain, blistering sun, and wind.
It’s been a long and busy summer in our house as well. If you have stopped by this blog before you know that I took the summer off to focus on a few things. I’m still working on my Illustrator class, but I have missed blogging so I am back, hopefully once a week.
The photo above I took this morning in our garden with my new (to me) Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS lens. I will show the original photo below. I increased the exposure and clarity in Camera Raw. Then in Photoshop I cropped and sharpened it. I was pleased with the outcome. I’m looking forward to playing around some more with this new lens.
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Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Cheers!
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Glad to see you back. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I like your post-processing. The new crop really elevates the photo.
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Thanks, I think it helped quite a bit too.
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So glad you are back 🙂 Great photo.
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Hi Amy! It’s nice to be back 🙂
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It’s great that now that the summer is over you can take some more time for blogging. To keep up with your Illustrator class is good too. I am not a very knowledgeable photographer, but I like very much to look at interesting, beautiful picture. I can see a lot of beauty in your picture. Thanks for publishing. 🙂
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Thank you very much for your kind words.
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I like your endurance post and your new lens seems great (with to manage it) Nice.
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I’m looking forward to using this lens 🙂
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Wonderful work on the photo, Amy. Couldn’t tell at all that you cropped it when I looked at the first photo. I like that you made the tiny details like the black dots stand out – a flower that has been bruised and battered, but a fighter still standing. Hope the class is/went well, I am sure it was a lot of fun. Glad to see you back 🙂
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Thanks for the welcome back! The class is going well just a lot more than I had anticipated.
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These little, beautiful flowers do endure a lot indeed Amy. What a stunning shot and entry for the challenge. Love it! 😀
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Hi Sonel, glad you liked the photo and I hope all is well with you!
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No complaints this side Amy and hope to hear the same. 😀
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Yup, just busy as usual 🙂
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Perennials endure for sure. They always amaze me. 🙂
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Yes, and wildflowers of all kinds are my favorite.
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I think the editing was just enough to enhance but not essentially change the photo. The wildflowers in the park where I walk most mornings are enduring as well, but little by little they’re losing petals. Still beautiful, though.
janet
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Thank you, and I do enjoy wildflowers in all their stages 🙂
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Kewl 🙂
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welcome back – 🙂 and also – I love your shot- it has the beauty and yet tough feel of flowers – which matched your words:
“flowers that grow there are subject to heavy rain, blistering sun, and wind”
nice – and have a great day amiga. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 It’s nice to be back.
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Love my 70-200 lens and apparently so do you PJB! Nicely captured.
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Yes, I am having a good time getting to know it 🙂
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Welcome back! I’m having an evening reading hundreds of blog posts to ‘catch up with my blogs’ 🙂
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Thanks for including me in that reading list, I hope all is well with you 🙂
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