Floral Friday: Narcissus and Helleborus

This is my first pair of daffodils to bloom this spring...

Here is the Helleborus that I bought just last weekend. The "Ivory Prince" cultivar seems popular around here. It was all they had at the local place where I like to get flowers, and I saw at Lowe's, too.

I added some effects to this one in Picasa. I kept adding "film grain" until it got this textured look. I also de-saturated it a little.


This post of my spring flowers in bloom is dedicated to Meg, Frank and Michelle. Happy spring!

Daffodil experiment

This is a daffodil photo I took a few springs ago.

I messed with it some in the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to make the colors a little deeper and richer, especially that blue/purple color in the background. I don't usually like to do a lot of "processing" to my pictures, but this one actually benefited from it quite a bit, in my opinion.

I messed with it a little more, adding a ripple effect.

Then I put the ripples on the horizontal.
What do you think?