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Three yellows and a view. (Left to right, a weeping willow, a forsythia (small), and a magnolia.) DP125-2013 Posted May 5; processed ditto. . Hidden Lake Gardens, Lenawee County, Michigan May 3, 2013 Thanks to those faithful commenters who found my May 4 post of 'Three magnolias and a gazebo' and commented even though I was AWOL from the commenters corps yesterday. I'm afraid I won't be able to comment again today until late, but hope to catch up with all the great posts for the weekend by this evening.
Three magnolias and a gazebo. The magnolias are, from left to right: (1) A Loebner magnolia, which is a hybrid between M. kobus and M. stellata. This is the white one to the left rear of the gazebo. (2) A saucer magnolia of unidentified type. This is the one with pink and white blossoms which is nearly obscured by the gazebo. (3) A yellow flowered magnolia, the first I've ever seen. No tag for identification. It's blossoms resemble in shape the Chinese Yulan type of magnolia. DP124-2013 Posted May 4; processed ditto . Hidden Lake Gardens, Lenawee County, Michigan May 3, 2013 (About yellow flowered magnolias. There seem to be a large number of such magnolias. Most seem to be based on a cross between a native American magnolia, M. acuminata and one or another of the Asian magnolias such as M. lilliflora or M. denudata.)
Stump details from cut crab apple trees The green really was present in the wood, not just in this stump but in a couple of others as well. The processing has emphasized it primarily via levels and contrast adjustments, not by saturation adjustments. . Dow Prairie, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor April 5, 2013
To quote cyndi lauper: And girls, / They wanna have fu-un. / Oh,girls, / Just wanna have fun. (Siblings, BFFs, or both.) Notice the foot of the girl on the right. Both girls had taken one shoe and sock off and dipped a bare foot into the cold, cold river I didn't hear them shriek or exclaim. You should understand that the air temperature was only in the upper 40s (F) at the time (say ~ 8 C), with a windchill probably in the 30s, if not the 20s. Kids seem much more tolerant of heat and cold than adults. FYI, there was an adult who was supervising these kids. DP096-2013 Posted April 6; processed ditto. Huron River at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor April 5, 2013 (Thanks to all of you who took the time to leave comments, green thumbs, or just to view yesterday's post of the spiderwort foliage. It ended up as probably my most viewed (1st day out) DP post so far, and currently stands no. 2 in my personal 'Popular Photos' display. I always appreciate the time people carve from their busy days to spend it looking at my smugmug pix.)
Hairy and sparkly. DP095-2013 Posted April 5; processed ditto Brown Spiderwort, Siderasis fuscata Family Commelinaceae . . . Native to South America The points of personal interest to me in the sight, and hence the shot, were the overall hairiness of the leaves (about which more later) and the zillions of tiny rainbow sparkles on the surfaces of the leaves. You can only get a hint of the sparkles even in the large sizes, but can readily see them in 'original', especially in the purple underside of the center leaf.. About the hairs: I did a little looking online about terminology for leaf parts and learned that leaves which have hairy surfaces are termed 'pubescent', and there are dozens of technical terms for the exact nature of the hairs. For example, these straight, fine hairs which cover the surfaces, not just the leaf margins, would be termed 'sericeus', provided they are soft (silky) and not stiff or stinging or aren't sticky from secretions or...you get the picture. . Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, Tropical House, March 29, 2013 FYI, if it matters, the shadows were cast by natural light. I didn't use a flash. Also, I don't know for sure what all those pale yellow bits that dot the leaves are. They fell from taller plants onto this low-growing spiderwort. They don't really look like pollen, but maybe...
Ice abstract with a touch of green...getting in the mood for St. Patrick's Day. (FYI, the colors are all real. They are simple objects that were either reflected by the ice, or whose colors were transmitted by the semi-translucent ice.) DP075-2013. Posted March 16; processed March 15 Taken March 14 from the back deck of the house. This is nothing more than the dome of a bird feeder with a wire mesh ball filled with peanuts under the dome, and a hanging feeder with a green metal top also hanging under the dome. More pictures of the same subject are available starting with this image: http://smu.gs/14cn0Qd
Green Flash. I've heard about this optical phenomenon, seen only at sunrise or sunset under certain conditions, but I'd never seen it, much less photographed it, until last December. If you're curious about the phenomenon, you can start by looking at Wikipedia's articel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash. To answer Paul's question, the flash was just that, very brief. One or two seconds. DP072-2013 Posted March 13; processed ditto The uncropped full size green flash shot can be seen here, http://smu.gs/Yrp6U9, along with the other two shots in the same 'Arizona Skies' gallery. This composite features images taken a few seconds before, at, and a few seconds after the flash. The camera times are respectively 5:25:04 pm, 5:25:17 pm, and 5:25:30 pm Note the overall greenish cast to the entire shot at 5:25:17 pm compared with the bracketing shots. Note also the tiny turquoise green spot just at the horizon where the sun disappeared (clearly visible in the larger sizes) Tucson, AZ December 28, 2012 For the three shot sequence, before, at, and after the green flash, I did minimal processing either in Lightroom or Photoshop beyond some minor exposure adjustment to try to get the overall exposure in each shot similar, based on eye-balling the histogram. I applied the same noise reduction to each, and that was about it. I was shooting in aperture priority, RAW, AWB, with the camera set to make minimal internal adjustments . Any color differences you see were present in the sky.
A study in the color that can be hidden in nearly monochrome images, especially in "white" light such as that from the sun. Simply amping up the saturation in photoshop brings the colors vividly to life. In contrast, doing a BW conversion, and seeing little detectable change re-enforces just how 'hidden' the colors were. The starting image (referered to as the original below) is a closeup of the perforations of a "sun-brella" that is blocking the sun, which is itself being screened by low thin clouds. DP071-2013. Posted March 12; processed March 11; taken March 10. The four frames, clockwise, starting in the upper right, are: (1) Original full color; (2) 100% saturation applied to (1); (3) BW conversion of (1), rotated 180 degrees; (4) Two filter layers, Fresco and Plastic Wrap, applied at reduced opacity to (2), followed by a 180 degree rotation. The full sized images of these four frames, all in the same orientation, can be see in my 'Fun with Filters' gallery here. In those images you can get a better sense of details of the colors brought out in (2), and the effect of the filters, which is somewhat difficult to see in this composite. http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Photography/Creative-Alterations/Fun-with-filters/10668106_75xhP9 (They're image set #38, currently at the end of the gallery)
Paint scheme detail. Water tower, Ann Arbor (See a shot of the entire tower here: http://smu.gs/YebFa8 ) DP066-2013. Posted March 7; processed March 6 Taken March 6, 2013
Three yellows and a view.
(Left to right, a weeping willow, a forsythia (small), and a magnolia.)

DP125-2013 Posted May 5; processed ditto.
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Hidden Lake Gardens, Lenawee County, Michigan
May 3, 2013

Thanks to those faithful commenters who found my May 4 post of 'Three magnolias and a gazebo' and commented even though I was AWOL from the commenters corps yesterday. I'm afraid I won't be able to comment again today until late, but hope to catch up with all the great posts for the weekend by this evening.
Three yellows and a view. (Left to right, a weeping willow, a forsythia (small), and a magnolia.) DP125-2013 Posted May 5; processed ditto. . Hidden Lake Gardens, Lenawee County, Michigan May 3, 2013 Thanks to those faithful commenters who found my May 4 post of 'Three magnolias and a gazebo' and commented even though I was AWOL from the commenters corps yesterday. I'm afraid I won't be able to comment again today until late, but hope to catch up with all the great posts for the weekend by this evening.
Three yellows and a view.
(Left to right, a weeping willow, a forsythia (small), and a magnolia.)

DP125-2013 Posted May 5; processed ditto.
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Hidden Lake Gardens, Lenawee County, Michigan
May 3, 2013

Thanks to those faithful commenters who found my May 4 post of 'Three magnolias and a gazebo' and commented even though I was AWOL from the commenters corps yesterday. I'm afraid I won't be able to comment again today until late, but hope to catch up with all the great posts for the weekend by this evening.
See photo in original gallery.
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