Looking for Lunatasidhe

Posted by Richard_Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 22 March 2008 in Plants & Nature.

Ragged petals from a windblown 'Draighean' or 'Mother of the Woods'. One should take care near these trees because they are “the increaser and keeper of dark secrets”.

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Comments (14)

Daniel from Stranded in Kenmare, United States

nice macro.

22 Mar 2008 12:05am

e. from New York, NY, United States

Beautiful! The petals are so nicely formed.

22 Mar 2008 1:49am

Betty from New Jersey, United States

Beautiful! Very nice macro.

22 Mar 2008 4:49am

GJC from Kyoto, Japan

Terrific clarity, and, as with other flowers you've recently posted, uses DOF very effectively to create a kind of screen of color to set the overall tone. Beautifully done.

22 Mar 2008 6:11am

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Love everything about this, image text imagination...

22 Mar 2008 6:39am

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

very beautiful - clear and sharp - excellent image

22 Mar 2008 7:29am

Jen from Alpharetta, United States

Excellent! and yes we should take care of them!

22 Mar 2008 8:31am

Sandrine from Cincinnati, United States

Beautiful!

22 Mar 2008 10:03am

Chris from South Jersey, United States

You captured very well how delicate these are - nice DoF and composition. How great that we can take photos of flowers again with spring here!!

22 Mar 2008 10:10am

@Chris: Spring seemed to start really early here.....until this weekend when icy winds swept down on us and it has actiually snowed today - not much, but its the first snow I've seen for years.

alex centrella from fresno, United States

simply beautiful !

22 Mar 2008 11:21am

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Absolutely brilliant and outstanding, Richard!!! What are you using for these incredible frames you've been using? Can you share???

22 Mar 2008 3:47pm

@amy: I'm using a framing plugin inside a suite of plugins called 'Essentials2' for Adobe Elements. This contains an almost identical plugin to PhotoFrame3 for Photoshop, as well as versions of MaskPro, Genuine Fractals & Phototune. As its about 10X cheaper to buy the Elements Plugin suite and Adobe Photoshop Elements too, than it is to buy the Photoshop versions on their own, I reckon it was a bargain. You can define thousands of frames.

http://www.ononesoftware.com