The Azaleas
Uploaded: May 27, 2005 05:18:28
Leanne M.E. Boyd June 15, 2005
This is beautiful Stefan! Congratulations on your POTD! #263494Evy Johansen June 15, 2005
Very beautiful! Great work, Stefan! Congratulations on your POTD! #1471573Judy S. Fung June 15, 2005
Congrats on your POTD, Stefan! #1471785Anna Diederich June 15, 2005
Congrats on your POTD! It is a an incredibly picture! #1471787Candy D. Dennis June 15, 2005
This is beautiful! What did you do? It looks like a textured background. #1471807Michelle B. Prince June 15, 2005
Wonderful. I also like the background. #1471898Laura Clay-Ballard June 15, 2005
gorgeous! congrats onpotd. #1471975Joy Rector June 15, 2005
Gorgeous. congrats on POTD. #1472101Michelle R. Kovach June 15, 2005
Gongrats on POTD Stefan! Great image!Judith G. Secco June 15, 2005
Love this, congratulations! #1472278Greg McCroskery June 15, 2005
Stefan,Claudette Foote June 15, 2005
Very beautiful! Great work, Stefan! Congratulations on your POTD! #1472572Isaac Abraham June 15, 2005
That really awesome! #1472683Mark Allin June 15, 2005
Wonderful and well deserved POTD - Mark #1472716Terrill Province June 15, 2005
An incredibly beautiful image, Stefan. I love everything about it, and am especially curious about the texture. It has the look of artists paper or cardstock. How did you do it? #1473179Patty Razonable June 15, 2005
Excellent composition!! Congratulations on your POTD!! #1473418Carolyn J. Connolly June 15, 2005
Stefan - beautiful image...lovely symmetry!! Nice composition, and, excellent colours and effects... Congrat's on this very eye-catching Photo Of The Day!! :o) #1473537Jenny Bosmans June 15, 2005
Congratulations Stefan!!! Outstanding image!! Love it! #1473770Joline Frazier June 15, 2005
I just love this, the way the flowers seem to be reaching to each other. The texture is also quite nice. Congratulations on your POTD. #1473841Carol Brill June 15, 2005
Marvelous job of capturing the saturated colors and abstract design in this image, Stefan, congratulations on your POTD! #1474944Stefan G June 15, 2005
Thank you all for your kind comments, and thank you betterphoto.com for selecting the image for POTD! To answer the questions about how it is done - The original image has only the bottom blossom. The upper blossom is a flipped copy of the bottom one, put on a separate layer. Both layers were manipulated separately by applying a liquify filter, mostly on the upper one to change its shape and make it look like reaching to touch the other azalea blossom. The texture is one of the texture filters available with Photoshop however it looks a little differently after resizing the image and reducing the jpeg quality. All the manipulations were done on the original size. The original has considerably better sharpness and a little more details. The background is pretty much natural- trees out of focus. Thanks again. #1475064Kathleen R. Struckle June 15, 2005
Stunning image! Congrats on POTD!! #1475259Vicki Hunt June 16, 2005
Congrats on the POTD! #1476035Donna La Mattino Pagakis June 16, 2005
Very pretty, congrats! #1477979Cora Miller June 23, 2005
Absolutely wonderful! Congratulations on winning POTD and making the finals with this beauty, Stefan! #1513528Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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