Orange Tulip
Uploaded: February 18, 2007
Photo was taken at the Seattle Flower and Garden Show on February 15, 2007
Canon 24-105mm F/4L IS lens @ 105mm, F/5.6, 1/60 second, ISO 400, fill flash
Rotated, cropped, cloned, +saturation, +brightness, +contrast, shadow/highlight, resized, sharpened and blurred in Photoshop CS
POTD at photo-of-the-day.com on February 21, 2007
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Featured POTD at PhotoShowdown on March 7, 2007
Sam Britt February 18, 2007
Your just as good at shooting flowers as you are birds, Janine. This is very beautiful. I love the orange background. #607646Hurk (Steve) Hurkett February 18, 2007
Beautiful floral composition, Janine ... Ilove how you have an orange tulip against an orange background .. who would have thought it would look so well together? #3961945Melissa G. Meiselman February 18, 2007
Interesting orange against orange, Janine!! Beautiful floral!!! #3961960Anita Hogue February 18, 2007
Love the way this tulip is posing for you! Beautiful orange on orange! #3962028Brian Lobdell February 18, 2007
A wonderfully intriguing composition, Janine! I love that gracefully curved stem, which accents the curvatures of the tulip superbly! Also a nice contast of shadow against the simple orange background! Well done! #3962167Tamera S. Phillips February 18, 2007
Great background for this beautiful tulip Janine. Nicely done. #3962197Martha N. Church February 18, 2007
Stunning image beautifully composed. #3962209Sheryl A. Hudson February 18, 2007
Simply stunning! Love the orange background! Beautiful work Janine! #3962228Susan Fox February 18, 2007
Wonderful composition, lighting and colors! #3962298Ronald F. Fischer February 18, 2007
Fantastic composition and use of SF on this beautiful capture! #3962403Arnie Horwitz February 18, 2007
Great composition beautiful colors, Janine! #3962418Cheryl E. Molennor February 18, 2007
OOh Janine. Very nice. Great colors and comp. #3962523Kay E. Mahoney February 18, 2007
Nice capture. Beautiful colors. Love all the orange. #3962569Raymond Pauly February 18, 2007
Lovely composition and BG, Janine! #3962597Marie Fields February 18, 2007
Beautiful image, Janine! ... the orange looks great! #3962778Janine Russell February 18, 2007
Sam, Steve, Melissa, Anita, Brian, Tamera, Martha, Sheryl, Susan, Ron, Arnie, Cheryl, Kay, Raymond and Marie, tanks very much for your kind comments and encouragement. #3962813Marilyn K. Lincecum February 18, 2007
Gorgeous image, Janine !!! Love the colors, lighting and background. #3962894Pat Gamwell February 18, 2007
Gorgeous orange-on-orange, Janine! Good choice of bg! SUPERB creation! #3962959Cindy Bendush February 19, 2007
This is stunning Janine - the color packs a real punch! BTW - how did you get the flower onto the orange background? Thanks, Cindy #3962993Husain Akhtar February 19, 2007
Wonderful capture, Janine! Particularly like the thoughtful composition and exposure! #3963034Janine Russell February 19, 2007
Marilyn, Pat, Cindy and MH, thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement.Cindy, this image was taken at a flower show; the tulip was in a vase in front of an orange wall. #3963067
Les Rhoades February 19, 2007
Very nice change of pace from the popular BP Post using black or white as the BG. Nice Example of how to be extra crative. #3963105Katarina Mansson February 19, 2007
I agree with Les; a great orange-on-orange picture with the green colour being a complement. Excellent detail. #3963132Richard D. Cox February 19, 2007
Beautiful composition. #3963175Joy Rector February 19, 2007
beautiful job #3963406Ronald Balthazor February 19, 2007
Wonderfully composed, Janine #3963561Linda M. Walker February 19, 2007
I love the composition and colors!! #3963663Linda M. Walker February 19, 2007
I love the composition and colors!! #3963668Christy Nichols February 19, 2007
This is AMAZING, Janine!!! I Love the colors and the comp, just amazing! #3963771Irene M. Biery February 19, 2007
Love the color! Good choice on background color too! #3964320Janine Russell February 19, 2007
Les, Katarina, Richard, Joy, Ronald, Linda, Christy and Irene, thanks very much for your encouragement and kind comments. #3964633Colleen Farrell February 19, 2007
I love the orange-on-orange--was that background there at the show or did you use something of your own? I also love the shallow DOF you used to keep the leaf soft while the flower is sharp! This is one of my faves! #3964828Janine Russell February 19, 2007
Colleen, thanks very much for your encouragement and kind comments; the tulip was in a vase in front of an orange wall. #3965135Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna February 19, 2007
OH MY!!!! What a beautiful image, Janine!!! I love the different tones of orange!!!!! ^.^ #3965211Janine Russell February 19, 2007
Kitty, thanks very much for your kind and encouraging comments. #3965492Bill Houghton February 20, 2007
I really like this Janine. Your background compliments the tulip. Great job as usual. Bill #3967198Janine Russell February 20, 2007
Bill, thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement. #3968117Cathy M. Gromball February 20, 2007
Gorgeous photo, Janine!Cathy :) #3968851
Janine Russell February 20, 2007
Cathy, thanks very much for your encouraging comments. #3968950Graeme yew Chow February 21, 2007
Oustanding macro with lovely colors, Janine. #3970518Kathleen K. Parker February 21, 2007
This is really lovely and well shot, Janine. The background is very complimentary to the subject, too. Very well done!!Janine Russell February 21, 2007
Graeme and Kathleen, thanks very much for your kind and encouraging comments. #3971930Sherry Stricklin Boles February 21, 2007
Very beautiful, Janine!! The background compliments this lovely flower wonderfully! #3973859Janine Russell February 21, 2007
Sherry, thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement. #3973925Morteza Safataj February 24, 2007
Great shot Janine!! #3981162Janine Russell February 24, 2007
Morteza, thanks very much for your encouraging comments. #3982544Isabel C. Rodriguez February 26, 2007
Another great TULIP shot, just as beautiful, well composed! #3996475Michelle L. Frick February 26, 2007
Tulips are my favorite! I love this time of year - this is beautiful Janine! #3999079Janine Russell February 26, 2007
Isabel and Michelle, thanks very much for your kind comments and encouragement. #3999535William88 March 04, 2007
Excellent curves, lighting, composition and tone. I love it. #4022073Janine Russell March 05, 2007
William, thanks very much for your kind and encouraging comments. #4024095Fawn M. Schutt March 09, 2007
Beautiful color. I love it! #4038761Janine Russell March 09, 2007
Fawn, thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement. #4039435Robert Baer March 14, 2007
janineJanine Russell March 14, 2007
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