Experimental Larkspur

By now you all know that I love to take pictures of flowers. In a quest to try something new, I went outside one evening with some colored backdrops (1 black, 1 off-white) to try capturing the wildflowers in my woods in a different way. I had lots of fun manipulating the photos in Picasa to get some interesting effects. The flower subject is Spring Larkspur, one of my favorites because of its intense, vibrant color.

I hope you enjoyed this experiment. I think I could probably do even more with these photos in the GIMP, so don't be surprised if they show up again looking a little different.

Happy photo-ing, happy flowering... and dare to be different!

Also, a general question to the commenters out there: Do you make use of the "email me follow-up comments" functionality within the comments section? Just wondering if it's safe for me to post any follow-up to your comments within the comments for that same post, of if I should be coming back to your blog to do so (I've seen it done both ways). Thanks for your input!

Things purple

Each spring brings a fresh crop of many different wildflowers, many of them in the color purple. Here's a sampling of some of the things purple in our woods.

Spring Larkspur

While photographing the Larkspur I came across this creature minding her own business in the woods... (I think we're about due for puppeh post!)

Wild Blue Phlox (okay, its blue by name, but it looks purple to me)

Flowers on the Redbud tree. Once again, not quite purple... more pink, rather. Maybe I should have titled this post "Things purple-ish"!