D242-2012 BW version with filtering:  Ripening seedpods of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).  They remind me of candle flames.
Surrounding them are dried brown seed heads of black-eyed susans and dainty white blossoms of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

For the color version, unfiltered, see here http://smu.gs/QbOJWB
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
Image 37 v01 Filtered version
A study in scarlet...and black and white.
A multi-effects filtered version.
New leaves on a small Japanese maple on the Hosta Hillside.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
April 5, 2012
(nex-5)
A study in scarlet...and black and white.
A multi-effects filtered version.
Framed version.  See the unframed version here http://smu.gs/HQGVut
and the unfiltered version adjacent to it.

New leaves on a small Japanese maple on the Hosta Hillside.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
April 5, 2012
(nex-5)
Image 36 v02 Filtered BW version
A layer for the BW conversion was copied, then modified with the Stamp filter.
Playground equipment, strangely unused on a bright sunny day.

Island Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 27, 2012
Image 36 v01 Filtered color version
(Different filters applied to the center (background) and the surrounding (foreground) areas.
Playground equipment, strangely unused on a bright sunny day.

Island Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 27, 2012
Light and shadows, seen standing beneath the perforated deck of the playground equipment.
A variety of filters applied; I don't even remember what they all were.  I just wanted to remove most of the context and leave lines and shapes as well as the light and shadows.

Island Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 27, 2012
Filtered version of Acanthaceae #03 17

Lollipop Plant or Golden Shrimp Plant, Pachystachys lutea.
Native to: ??
Multiple effects applied, some overall, and some to selected areas.

Tropical House, Matthaei Botanical Gardens
March 5, 2012
(Sony nex-5)
Crassulaceae Crassula #04-2012H 03

Jade Tree.  Crassula argentea
Distribution  South Africa

A highly stylized (i.e. filtered) rendering of the blossoms, trying to make them stand out more against a busy background and give an impression of the delicate beauty of the blooms rather than a recording of them in exact detail.
(For a framed version of this image, see the Frameworks gallery here: http://smu.gs/FPBAQE 

March 1, 2012
Arid Dome, Hidden Lake Gardens Conservatory
(Canon 50D)
Framed version of Crassulaceae Crassula #04-2012H 03
(For the 'original' unframed version, see here, in the Crassulaceae gallery of the Cyber Conservatory:  http://smu.gs/xqMy55 )

Jade Tree.  Crassula argentea
Distribution  South Africa

A highly stylized (i.e. filtered) rendering of the blossoms, trying to make them stand out more against a busy background and give an impression of the delicate beauty of the blooms rather than a recording of them in exact detail.

March 1, 2012
Arid Dome, Hidden Lake Gardens Conservatory
(Canon 50D)
D242-2012 BW version with filtering: Ripening seedpods of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). They remind me of candle flames.
Surrounding them are dried brown seed heads of black-eyed susans and dainty white blossoms of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

For the color version, unfiltered, see here http://smu.gs/QbOJWB
.
Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 BW version with filtering:  Ripening seedpods of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).  They remind me of candle flames.
Surrounding them are dried brown seed heads of black-eyed susans and dainty white blossoms of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

For the color version, unfiltered, see here http://smu.gs/QbOJWB
.
Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 BW version with filtering: Ripening seedpods of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). They remind me of candle flames.
Surrounding them are dried brown seed heads of black-eyed susans and dainty white blossoms of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

For the color version, unfiltered, see here http://smu.gs/QbOJWB
.
Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
See photo in original gallery.