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Withered and dried hydrangea flowers, still beautiful…
I ’ve been experimenting here with white-balance settings and colours…
The colour-variations are a result of camera settings, not photo-shopping :)
Photograph made with Pentax K10D camera and Pentax-M zoom1:2.8~4 40~80mm lens
Favorites: 15, Views: 801 on Aug. 30, 2012
Challenge Winner
This image was one of the threefold tie challenge winners in lavendar waterlilies and hydranchea (Sept. 18, 2011)
Thank you so much!
Features and Top10 placements
Featured in Out of the blue (Sept 24, 2009)
Featured in Unlimited Quality (Oct 04, 2009)
Featured in Waterlily, Lotus and Hydrangea Flowers (July 26, 2010)
Featured in Blue – #1 artists of redbubble (Oct 9, 2010)
Top10 placement in Dead, but still beautiful – Waterlily, lotus and hydrangea (Jan.7, 2011)
Top10 placement in Best of features 2010 (Feb. 2, 2011)
Thank you so much to the hosts of these marvellous groups 
Comments and feed-back always welcome. Thanks for looking :)
Steppeland (pseudonym) is a Flemish photographer, living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Her main area’s of interest are Nature Photography, Street photography and Photojournalism. Recently she also explores different digital art techniques, mainly based on her own photographs.
More of her work can be seen at DeviantArt and 500px
Comments and feed-back always welcome! Thanks for looking!
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Comments
So beautiful and love the colours. So fragile.
Thanks a lot, Joy!
– steppeland
Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Thank you so much, Sharon! Happy you like it!
– steppeland
… and thanks for the favourite too! :)
– steppeland
That’s beautiful!!!
Thank you, Tego, for your visit and compliment. I really appreciate :)
– steppeland
Oh, that absolutely gorgeous. Great DOF, colours and capture. :)
Aww, thank you so much for your visit and for such a great compliment – and thanks for the fav too! Really appreciated!
– steppeland
wow dear ! you can be proud of those beautiful in-camera colors, they are gorgeous ! and I like the DoF and lovely details. It’s all beautiful
Thank you, Aimelle! It’s all thanks to you that I have discovered and dared to experiment with those camera settings – You are my big example and tutor for this technique… Thrilled that you like it! [blowkiss]
– steppeland
Fantastic work…so beautiful!
Thank you so much, Joni for your visit and kind comment!
– steppeland
A ‘snapshot’ of a flower becomes a PHOTOGRAPH when some extra work has gone into getting the result – AS HERE. Flower photography becomes interesting when the photographer accomplishes 3 things:
1. Detail / focus
2. Lighting
3. 3D plus DOF
All these things are shown here together with your creativity to enhance the shot with your colour settings. A vey interesting and professional shot indeed.
Aww, thank you! Such a comment is an honour [blushing and bowing – and of course: big smile :D ]
– steppeland
Beautiful work!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for the comment and the fav, elicot! Much appreciated :)
– steppeland
Excellent!!!
Please consider putting this into the Waterlily, Lotus and Hydrangea Flowers group.
Your host,
Cee
Thank you, Cee, I did, but seemingly forgot to thank you for the heads-up – never too late to set that right though: Thank you!
– steppeland