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Jbeskate 2 years ago

Another great one, by the master of the abstract.

Foto Felix 2 years ago

I love your work so much.!!!!!
I invite you to watch mine at www.felixperezmoreno.es , i hope it like you.

Jacobsladder 2 years ago

Wonderful! Dreamy colours! Gorgeous!

Alex - SwáSthya Yôga 3 years ago

Explendido....

Ursula I Abresch Thank you!

Rosalinde Philippin-Lipscomb 4 years ago

so beautiful, love it !
greetings Rosalinde

Ursula I Abresch Thanks a big bunch, Rosa!

Ulf Börjesson 4 years ago

Another one of you beautiful flower shots. Great stuff!
U

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Ulf!

Thomas Ljungberg 4 years ago

A comment from my doughter (age 10). "Wow, this is so cool. Look at that yellow in between the leaves..."
/Thomas

Ursula I Abresch I like your daughter! She has good taste :) Please say "Thank you!" to her.

Judy W 4 years ago

That certainly has your signature. It is beautiful like a lavender velvet swirl. Lovely indeed. :~)

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Judy!

andrea lorenzetti 4 years ago

what beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Andrea!

Usman Ahmad 4 years ago

Superb!

Ursula I Abresch Usman, thank you!

Florence Berluteau 4 years ago

Quite compelling! Congratulations Ursula!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Florence!

Ian Bramham 4 years ago

The colour and optimism of this photo are captivating!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Ian!

Jef Van den Houte 4 years ago

A poem in an image

Ursula I Abresch :) Thank you!

Angela Bacon-Kidwell 4 years ago

I admire your fasination with wildflowers. You do them justice.
My nickname my husband gave me before we were married was and is
Lavender-Butterfly-Fairy-Flower-Button.
This image reminds me of that.

Ursula I Abresch That is a very beautiful nickname, Angela. I'm glad you like the picture. I don't have many pictures of when I was a baby, but I have one my mother gave me, when I was just under 1 year old and had just learned to walk, and there I standing with my nose stuck inside a daisy, smelling it. I used to spend hours "repairing" daisies as a kid, by sticking little sticks in their hollow stems when I found them broken, so they would stand up again. I guess it's genetic or something :)

Scott Crouse 4 years ago

So beautiful Ursula. The colours and the flow of the peddles are fantastic.

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Scott!

Martin Gremm 4 years ago

The colors and especially the way sharp details emerge from the soft haze in unexpected places make this one very special flower shot!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Martin!

Carmen S Cipriano 4 years ago

Great Shot Ursula!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Carmen!

Clyde Beamer 4 years ago

GORGEOUS, in a word!!

Ursula I Abresch THANK YOU, in two words!! :)

Eddie Wong 4 years ago

Wow... this is so good. Very dream like!! Maybe you need to start giving classes on how to do flowers? I don't have the discipline for Macro but this one is just so inspiring. Excellent!!!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Eddie. Classes, eh? Hmmmmm. I think I'm probably the world's worst teacher when it comes to photography :)

Jerry Berry 4 years ago

Thanks for the Color Ursula. Wonderful.

Ursula I Abresch Glad to be of service, Jerry :)

milan malovrh 4 years ago

Excellent.

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, milan!

Fulvio Pellegrini 4 years ago

great light and composition, Ursula
F.

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Fulvio!

Brent Mooers 4 years ago

Love it.
The purple border really adds something.

Ursula I Abresch Thank you. Yeah, it's hard to separate images from the black background sometimes, and I like using colour :)

Emily Bem 4 years ago

Soft and surreal! Lovely!

:)

Ursula I Abresch Thanks, Emily!

Jacob Jovelou 4 years ago

Excellent, Ursula...

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Jacob!

joan kocak 4 years ago

simply spectacular....oh yes, that glorious yellow !

Ursula I Abresch :) Like fried eggs and purple. Thanks!

MarieM 4 years ago

excellent !

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Marie!

lucian olteanu 4 years ago

beautiful!!

Ursula I Abresch Thank you!

Angela Vicedomini 4 years ago

A fairy tale picture Ursula !

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Angela!

Willy Marthinussen 4 years ago

great work Ursula. so soft and with a good compo and colours.
All the best --willy--

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Willy!

Fernand Hick 4 years ago

Ursula, ça c'est superbe, puissant, une photo qui "en jette" (punch) tout en restant délicate. Superbe réalisation ! Congrats !
Fernand

Ursula I Abresch Merci, Fernand!

Alberto Peroni 4 years ago

Where are the fairies?.... Wonderful and delicate...

Ursula I Abresch They are hiding behind the yellow :) Thank you, Alberto!

Michael Jakesz 4 years ago

Very powerful and yet subtle at the same time. Wonderful shot!
You know, from time to time I try a couple of shots similar to this one, but they're not quite there. They lack that special something, that your shots have.
All the best
Michael

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Michael. It often is a combination of circumstances, and with wildflowers you have a very small window of opportunity (whoever says flower pictures are easy is very, very wrong!). Keep at it, for me, what's fun is all the time I get to spend wandering around outdoors looking for them.

Michael Jakesz Thanks for your reply, Ursula! It's funny you see that the same way... for me photography is the best excuse to go strolling/wandering/hiking outdoors :-)

Andrea Orioli 4 years ago

That's a wonderful macro Ursula! It's interesting your choice of selective focus; probably I would have chosen a petal on the right, but your choice is very original and I like it a lot!
Andrea

Ursula I Abresch I tried various areas of focus, in particular I thought that focusing on the front petal that are really blurry in this image might work (and it still might), but I ended up liking this one better because it makes the image glow to have focus a bit further back and to the sides, sort of like a frame holding up a glow. Thank you for your comment!

Andrea Orioli The more I see your photo and the more I'm convinced that you made the best choice :-) I like to search the focus point and then come back to the "big yellow", it's a kind of composition that attracts me very much!
Ursula, I was wondering how you got so much light out of the flower keeping the black background...Did you use a torch to lighten the flower while you were in a very dark room? Or is it a matter of post-processing?
Andrea

Ursula I Abresch BTW, I would NEVER pick wildflowers and bring them indoors to shoot them! They stay where they are, where they belong :)

Andrea Orioli Wow, thanks for the very helpful explanation!! and..mmm..saved for the bell, I was ready to call the forests branch of WWF :-))

Ursula I Abresch Good, I'm safe. I hear internet access is not too good in jail :)

Ursula I Abresch Thank you, Andrea.

No, I don't use any artificial light, except sometimes a small gold reflector or a piece of white or goldish tack-board over the lens (hole cut out for the lens). But I didn't have anything along this time. It's more the time of day, and how the light works on certain days. Sometimes colours just glow in the evening (yesterday was like that, today will not be like that). On a very wide aperture (maximum or close, for me usuallly F2.8 or F4), if you meter for the foreground and underexpose some, and shoot into the light but at a slight angle, you get very bright foreground and almost black backgrounds. Also, the landscape helps, these flowers grow on a hillside where the background is mainly the faraway hills on the other side of the river. I then emphasize the effect further in post-processing by darkening the edges and brightening areas I want to keep bright.

Hope this helps!

Thomas Ljungberg 4 years ago

Ursula, you have a certain way of catching the beauty and fragility of flowers. It is very inspiring!
Wonderful colors!
/Thomas

Ursula I Abresch Thank you so much, Thomas. I've always loved flowers, especially daisies and poppies.