Nov 4, 2007, 19:42
I hope This works. First try at putting a photo into a post.
The story: I had 2 pots of begonias outside the gate to my yard. They were finally hit by frost on Oct. 29th (very late for here) and I took a couple of photos of the wilted flowers. This is one. Shot with a Rebel XTi, I desaturated it. The flower was red/orange but remained pink while everything else went to sepia and brown. There were a couple of brown areas on the blossom that I selected and turned pink to match the rest. Some burning-in around the left, bottom & right sides then a series of borders and frames added.
I was trying to get the feeling of fading beauty without getting morbid. I wanted it to still be beautiful in it's last moments.
ADK Jim
The story: I had 2 pots of begonias outside the gate to my yard. They were finally hit by frost on Oct. 29th (very late for here) and I took a couple of photos of the wilted flowers. This is one. Shot with a Rebel XTi, I desaturated it. The flower was red/orange but remained pink while everything else went to sepia and brown. There were a couple of brown areas on the blossom that I selected and turned pink to match the rest. Some burning-in around the left, bottom & right sides then a series of borders and frames added.
I was trying to get the feeling of fading beauty without getting morbid. I wanted it to still be beautiful in it's last moments.
ADK Jim