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Alabama Spring


Alabama Spring
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Copyright: Jimmy Thompson (mattnwal) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 35 W: 0 N: 24] (191)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-03-02
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 10d, Canon EF 24-85mm
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/350 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-03-13 4:11
Viewed: 600
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Growing up in the South, daffodils were the harbingers of Spring. Many a March morning, as I was leaving for school, I would see the daffodils in my mother's garden covered in frost. They would be bent over kissing the ground as if trying to draw warmth from the earth. Then as the sun touched their petals, melting the frost, they would slowing raise their cup toward the sun.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim

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No PS involved, just cropped and sized.
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Hello. The idea and the composition are good but I think the pictures could be much more better with more lightness and sharper. Maybe DOF is a bit short.

In Mobile, AL, they called them jonquils. Had to look up the word in the dictionary as I never had heard that before.

It is very hard to take pictures with frost, because it always somehow gets the sharpness out of the photo.

You could crop this picture a bit tighter, I think

Very nice note too !

Marleen

Hi Jimmy,

Nice flower macro. The exposure looks good (I wouldn't try to brighten it too much or you'll blow out the highlight on that top petal). The background looks a little monotone, so, I did a workshop for you.

Take care.
Richard

Hi Jimmy...ahh yes, the lovely daffodil with the touch of frost on it, bravely blooming to brighten our days with hopes of Spring. I like your composition and especially your sensitive note with it. My only suggestion is it is a tad out of focus. The shade and brightness is a preference of the photographer. Next time concentrate on DOF and correct focal distance...but still a lovely photo and one I like very much that brings back memories.....:O)

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