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Challenge: Flowers in Garden & Field (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My Garden
Date: May 17, 2011
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Black and White, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 17, 2011

 I'd been meaning to find an interesting subject for this challenge all week but have always been busy in the evenings after work, so come Tuesday night I get home with about an hour of sunlight left, it's cloudy, windy, and all the flowers in my garden (which looked fantastic last week) are dead except for one.

Not expecting particularly high marks for this challenge, but I worked with what I had and am happy with the end result. Hopefully the lack of colour in a challenge to shoot flowers will stand out a little =).

Statistics
Place: 177 out of 220
Avg (all users): 4.8606
Avg (commenters): 7.2000
Avg (participants): 4.6190
Avg (non-participants): 5.1111
Views since voting: 615
Views during voting: 280
Votes: 165
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/29/2011 02:04:12 PM
Thanks Niall (and everyone else for your comments). I'm perfectly happy with this score for this image, I knew it wouldn't score highly, I actually guessed it'd be around 4.8 at the start of the challenge. And I guess since you beat me by .1 in the last challenge it's fair I beat you by .1 this time =).
 05/29/2011 01:14:21 PM
Lovely tones, and shapes, and textures in this. Not surprised about the score considering all the happy sunshine in garden images that scored well, but you beat me! :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2011 08:36:49 PM
A beautiful composition, I would have darkened a little, the focus is right and I love the background shapes 7
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 05/23/2011 08:55:36 AM
Beautiful stuff.
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 05/22/2011 02:56:54 PM
This in B&W just doesn't appeal to me...the majority of flowers demand color...nice picture although
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 05/19/2011 06:35:12 PM
A bit more contrast, and I would've loved this image.
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 05/18/2011 09:34:37 PM
Oh boy, I had to search the meaning of it:
"There are about 19 different species of bumblebee (and six species of cuckoo bumblebees) found in the UK, 66 in Europe and around 250 in the world."
I thought that we were dealing with a carnivore plant.
Very nice ruffle and ripple of the image, independently of the Field of Flowers ...
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 05/18/2011 01:07:41 AM
Nice tones, i like it.
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