I think moving away from the red which otherwise dominates the image helps bring out the wonderful form of these cactus blooms.
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"Color pictures are so ubiquitous that the casual viewer comes to accept them as the true “reality”, the color process reveals for them the real world, which is not hard to understand because the “real world” is, for most people, an artifact of the industrial/material surround. The colors of the urban environment are for the most part far more garish and “unrelated” than we find in nature. The Creator did not go to art school and natural color, while more gentle and subtle, seldom has what we call aesthetic resonance."
Ansel Adams
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Village of Lost Souls 2008, design by Mary Ellen Page. (view large or huge) (Explore)
Mary is not one to hold back on her opinions, and while I wouldn't have it any other way, we sometimes kid that if only it were Mary Ellen's America, things would be going good.
This is what America might look like after Nov 4 is the wrong side wins.
P.S. This is one of those oddities where I combined HDR with LTR... I expanded the dynamic range so I could shrink it... yeah...
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Denis, what happened to my colors!? ... Chandler, Arizona
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I was able to spend a wonderful week in New York City with my son - it was his high school graduation present. What a city to photograph!
(To my NYC Flickr friends, sorry I didn't have time to stop by, will be back again...)
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