Posted by Jen (Alpharetta, United States) on 27 April 2007 in Plants & Nature and Portfolio.
My chives made it through the winter!! I truly thought they were long gone last fall after a bad dry spell...so I let the pot sit in the garden over the winter and figured I would toss the old dirt in the spring. Amazingly enough they started to grow again and low and behold it looks like it's going to bloom!! Mother Nature is so wonderful : D
8/18/08 - I will out of pocket for a while. My laptop is having issues and I need to get it over to a service center to fix it. I hope it doesn't take too long to get it fixed. Wish me luck!
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oooh. i never kenw that chive buds were so pretty in pink!
i thought they were pink tulips initially. haha.
27 Apr 2007 12:28am
@treeeeesh: LOL...they are so tiny I really had to get in close to get their details! Thanks!!
Wonderful capture Jen, more of a portrait there with crisp foreground and all blur background, nice shot. Mother nature is indeed wonderful and mysterious at times. ;-)
27 Apr 2007 12:42am
@Rahul: I used the dry brush filter in ps...I like the way it turned out like a painting instead of a picture. Thank you Rahul!!
absolutly great shot
27 Apr 2007 2:11am
@Dimitrios: Thank you!!
Gorgeous. It has the richness of an oil painting.
27 Apr 2007 2:23am
@dYe: I used the dry brush filter and then made some adjustments with color and contrast. Thank you!!
Jen - wonderful image! nature at its best - beautiful shot my friend! Have a GREAT weekend!!! :-))
27 Apr 2007 4:49am
@Jerry: Thanks Jerry! Hope you have a great weekend too!! When do you leave for your big trip?
Very cool - it definitely has the look of painting.
27 Apr 2007 5:44am
@Betsy Carson: Thank you very much Betsy!!
I love the colours!
27 Apr 2007 6:35am
@SPunkt: Me too!!! It was such a nice suprise to find them alive and thriving!! : )
Great composition! Love the shadows and repetition of colors, shapes and line!
27 Apr 2007 6:44am
@craiger: Thank you very much Craig!!
Beautiful shot.
27 Apr 2007 7:45am
@Angry Buddha: Thank you very much!!
Oh the DOF on this is just spectacular Jen!! The colours and comp is wonderful! Good on ya!!!!!
27 Apr 2007 9:21am
@amy: Thank you Thank you Thank you Amy!!! I kept doing the traditional ps work and it just wasn't working so I started playing with different filters and WaaLaa here she is! : )
Nothing beats mother nature and its will! Wonderful take Jen!
27 Apr 2007 10:06am
@Manuela Photography: Very true!! Thank you!!
Very beautiful shot. Like the colors.
27 Apr 2007 3:35pm
@Reza: Thank you!!
You did a good job with this one. Love the colours and the DOF.
27 Apr 2007 4:57pm
@Yvon: Thank you : )
Really Lovely Jen! The processing is superb. Why don't you go to the forum to the Photoshop section and tell us how to do this?
28 Apr 2007 5:01am
@Anne: Hi Anne! Thank you! I went on there the other night and was going to post a question and got sidetracked by my kids...I'll post how I did it later today : )
Whatever that is in the background blurred out just perfectly for this photo! It really sets off the foreground in a way that is often impossible in flower shots.
29 Apr 2007 7:23am
@Mike Cash: It was the siding and concrete on my house...I really like the effect the dry brush filter gave the buds, feels more like a painting than a photo. Thanks so much Mike!!
Nice! I love the lines they make.
30 Apr 2007 9:55am
@Celialee: Thank you!
Almost surreal, beautiful!
1 May 2007 11:26am
@Erik Tjallinks: The standard pp work I usually do just wasn't working for my eyes...so I had to play around in ps just a bit more to get this...glad I did! Thank you so much for the nice comments!
Yes, she is wonderful, so is tihis photo! Lovely, vivid colours!
17 May 2007 3:15pm
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