Beauty Fades

Published June 13, 2012 | By Bill

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

This is one of the first poppies to bloom and fade in our spring garden. I applied a texture to the image. To me, it didn’t seem right to gaze upon its unfiltered demise.

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Posted in Flowers, Pops Photos | Tagged Bill Pevlor, Bud, Flower, Flowers, Garden, Poppies, Poppy, Pops Digital, Sony SLT-A55V, Spring, Texture, Textured

Spring’s Serenade (textured effect)

Published June 10, 2012 | By Bill

I’ve been fiddling with my images lately. (You might have noticed yesterday’s post – Morning Friends)

This image was originally posted last April (see Spring’s Serenade). When I first posted it I shared it with some friends and mentioned I thought it would be a perfect image for a textured effect. Well, I finally got around to trying one on.

It changes the feel of the bright, vivid original image. You should look at both and see which you prefer.

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Posted in Flowers, Pops Photos | Tagged Bill Pevlor, Flowers, Leaf, Leaves, Plant, Pops Digital, Red, Serenade, Sony SLT-A55V, Spring, Texture, Textured, Tree, Twig, Twigs, Young