Flipping through my garden plan for next year, and dreamily remembering how well they looked at the foot of the sunflowers.
(Two ruthless crops of this image:)
(Suuure, it might look o.k. from here, but click to see it larger and witness the long scratch along the lower third, and be annoyed and distracted by the blurry stuff in front.)
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Scarlet Flax, August 2, 1, & original, c. 2012
Fujifilm Neopan 400
Umm, I didn’t see the scratch, even when I enlarged it. I often think only the photographer knows where these so-called ‘flaws’ exist and noone else can see it. I like the delicate nature of the image and the motion implied by the blur.
Thanks, Jana, and you might be right; I know a single speck of dust can drive me bonkers in one image, and not bother me at all in another. Maybe we get too caught up in how we think a particular picture *should* look.
These are so beautiful!
I’m longing for summer…..
Thanks, Marie. I’m in the same mood lately: I flip through my gardening catalogues like a kid gazing at pictures of candy!
I like both of the verticals… perfectly exposed (and composed).
Thanks very much, John! Sometimes being bold in my editing pays off.