March 5, 2020 — Los Gatos Creek Trail, California
A distillation.
(Nikon D850, AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.2; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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Again, very beautiful, and Minimal too. 🙂
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Thank you. When I cook, I do reductions well. It’s a thing.
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Some people enjoy living on the edge.
What did you mean by “a distillation”?
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Distill: to extract the essential elements of; refine; abstract. I’m working on going beyond the edge.
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Beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Fantastic
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Thank you.
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Such simplistic Beauty you’re able to pull from , as you say, what Mother nature provides. Do you keep info or thoughts as to just how much work has to go into such an image?
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Thanks very much, Chris. Different images take different amounts of time in post processing. I spent a couple of hours on this. Trying various approaches and accepting or rejecting them and then refining, refining, refining.
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Another very nice image, Mike. It really does distill the flower’s form to a lovely essence and with the dark background the color is rich and pleasing.
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Thanks very much, Steve.
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Oh, my, how did I miss this exceptional beauty?!!!!! It’s essence captured!
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🙏😊
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It seems like a votive, or a cup, and also as if it was made of wax. It’s interesting how much the nature of something can be pushed and pulled and changed at will. 🙂
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Thank you very much and I did push and pull at will.
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