A shy -but Warm- Alstroemeria inside the window of a fast food restaurant on a winter’s day.


There has, indeed, been some processing to give the new bud the stage: overall tweaking of tonalities as well as localized adjustments in Adobe Lightroom 4.3, to give a hint of selective focus, a la “tiltshift” effect. Also, mild vignetting, and localized color balance tweaking and tonal treatments were applied to each end of this long horizontal “dual monitor desktop” cropping.

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Orchitexture

I’ll make this post more of a typical photoblog entry. Recently, I brought home orchids from two different trips to the grocery. Willing only to spend enough to get the smaller plants, with their smaller flowers, I also felt I was getting the less “spectacular”, maybe more unique strains.

Here are a few of the more unique explorations of the first plant:

'horror' lighting? or stage lighting...?
'horror' lighting? or stage lighting...?

Orchid-28

Orchid-139-2
One of the "Title" images of this set

Orchid-106

Orchid-58

Orchid-72

Orchid-38

and another one about both form And texture.
and another one about both form And texture.