For Sliders Sunday today.

This is one of a much larger set of a dozen or so variants I have produced of this dahlia, mainly for a presentation I shall be doing next week. But I thought I would spare you from having to wade through them all, and just give you a break.

I love dahlias for their shapes and apparent symmetries. I say apparent, because when you throw them at a mirror filter as I have done here they become more symmetric, which kind of implies they weren't really to start with.

Whenever I do a mirror distortion of a flower it makes me want to go back to the original to check what I missed in its shapes and form which becomes apparent in the transformed version.

This image was taken a couple of months ago in a post-lockdown visit to a local open garden.

This is a plain colour edit (in Capture One) with a six-way mirror in Affinity Photo, moving the origin of mirrrors to find something interesting.

A bit of fun anyway. I'll post a link to the in-camera version as usual. I'll probably post some monochrome versions in the coming days.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday!

[Handheld in daylight.]

Tags:   flower petal dahlia floral flora blooming garden summer decoration proportion no person bright botanical nature chrysanthemum love abstract round HSS mirror Sliders Sunday kaleidoscope

© All Rights Reserved

As promised here is a straight version of yesterday's dahlia that I published for Sliders Sunday.

Sepia-toned monochrome (using Topaz Studio this time).

I like this version because it emphasises the shapes and lines and textures, in which the beauty of this flower lies I think.

For my 100x monochrome project this year...

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the flower! Happy 100x :)

Tags:   flower petal dahlia floral flora blooming garden summer decoration proportion no person bright botanical nature chrysanthemum love abstract round 100x:Monochrome monochrome sepia 100 x: The 2020 Edition 100x:2020 Image 75/100

© All Rights Reserved

This is a wobbly camera picture of trees reaching out to each other over a path.

The original take wasn’t very prepossessing (see the first comment) but I liked the linear feel to the image so thought I would process it in monochrome for the Donnnerstagsmonocrom group today, as well as contributing to my 100x Wobbly project.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Monochrome Thursday and 100x :)

[Handheld overhead in too-bright sunlight.
Developed in Capture One reducing Clarity and balancing Dehaze and Structure to get the right balance of texture… well, a balance anyway :)
Over sharpened in Affinity reducing Clarity a little but then thwacking it with High Pass/Linear Blend and Unsharp Mask in my favourite technique for this sort of effect.
Tried rather unsuccessfully to get rid of sensor splodges :(
Converted in Nik Silver Efex tinkering quite a lot with structure and contrast to balance the texturing again. Added film grain to cover some of the problems :) . Also added light vignette and dark burnt edges. Medium sepia toning.
Cropped to square format because it seemed to suit the pic (I don’t do enough squares!).]

Tags:   Abstract Texture art insubstantial desktop Pattern vintage Design Black And White color winter Reflection bird wave lake Background wallpaper grain beach tree woods 100 x: The 2022 Edition 100x:2022 ICM Intentional Camera Movement Wobbly Camera Image 5/100 Sepia Monochrome photography square format Nik Silver Efex monochrome tinted toned

© All Rights Reserved