A Floral Walk

just around the village resting the legs after a few long dog walks. Sigma 105mm with 12mm ext tube attached so i could use it with CIF to counteract quite blowy conditions. Processed with PS and NIK Colour Efex.

1. Save some of these for the Bees



2. Obligatory Bluebell



3. Roadside Daisy



4. Perewinkle?



5. A Patch Of Springtime



6. Hiding in the Undergrowth



7. Pink ish



8. Stamen



9. Ready to Fly



10. Partaking of the Nectar

Making the best of the strong sunlight with some of these Joe, particularly like the simplicity of "A Patch Of Springtime" - Nice shooting

3, 7 and 8 seem over-processed for my taste, but I quite like the others (although 1 doesn't need the odd bit of flower on the right).

Philip

Nice set. Although I agree about a bit over-processing, I actually like no 7 very much!

I like 'em - even the 'differently processed' ones.

No. 10 - Female orange tip?

Steve

Nice set

thanks for comments, 1, 4, 7, and 8 all "solarised". Personally quite happy with1 and 7 reasonably so about 4 but must admit 8 did not go quite to plan . Butterfly is a Small White i believe no orange tips on wings.

No orange tip on the wings of a female Orange Tip, either. Only the male has the orange tip. It looks like yours has a mottled pattern on the outer wing surface (i.e. under the wing when outstretched), characteristic of a female Orange Tip. Here's one that's definitely a female Orange Tip - confirmed by an expert friend because I wasn't sure what it was .




Steve

Didn't know that so yes quite possible as there are a lot of Orange Tips about.

My learning curve's a couple of weeks ahead of yours!

Steve

I think I shall put some tubes on my 105mm and see what happens. These are lovely - especially the bluebell..

as i said David i put it on to enable me to use Catch in Focus as there was quite a strong breeze blowing stuff around. I thought switching the lens into MF mode with camera in AF would have done it but that didn't work as it does with an actual MF lens.

I like no.5 and 6
5 for the way it stands proud and is a big hit of colour and 6 for that dark moody abstract look