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[mani]

Lovely shots mani.

If you don't mind, just a little suggestion on the composition. To get a more dramatic feel of your photos, especially for landscape and seascape shots, remember, either have more sky or more sea or land and with a subject in frame like the one with the boat, show more sky and have the boat closer to closer to the left bottom of the frame and same goes for the one with the angler. Both horizons for the 2 shots are spot on!

Thanks TT.. To be honest, I use these as backgrounds to advertise upcoming yoga classes and retreats.. So the images were cropped to accommodate the text. I guess I should keep the originals.
I can't stand a slopey horizon! When my brother sends me shots, I always have to level them up.
For example, this one that he took originally had a slightly sloping horizon.. you can imagine how jarring that would be!

 

[tabbytom]

Thanks TT.. To be honest, I use these as backgrounds to advertise upcoming yoga classes and retreats.. So the images were cropped to accommodate the text. I guess I should keep the originals.
I can't stand a slopey horizon! When my brother sends me shots, I always have to level them up.
For example, this one that he took originally had a slightly sloping horizon.. you can imagine how jarring that would be!

Oh, I guess with text and informations on a photo poster should be quite ok as the wordings are more important than the background.

Yea, me too, can't stand slopey background. Sometimes when you level up, you loose a lot of the other parts of the photo.

For example, the rainbow shot, if you show less foreground, the photo will be more dramatic. You just scroll up to the shadows of the trees and you'll see the difference.

 

[Norachan]

Ooooohhhh, pretty rainbow!

 

[Kwik]

Thanks TT.. To be honest, I use these as backgrounds to advertise upcoming yoga classes and retreats.. So the images were cropped to accommodate the text. I guess I should keep the originals.
I can't stand a slopey horizon! When my brother sends me shots, I always have to level them up.
For example, this one that he took originally had a slightly sloping horizon.. you can imagine how jarring that would be!

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Wow,,that's a gorgeous shot!

 

[mani]

It's Spring here.. the Leucospermum and Crucifix Orchids were the first to flower

 

[Kwik]

It's Spring here.. the Leucospermum and Crucifix Orchids were the first to flower

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How beautiful- that top photo is amazing-Wow !

 

[tabbytom]

It's Spring here.. the Leucospermum and Crucifix Orchids were the first to flower

Beautiful! Look at the details in the first shot! Well done!

 

[Norachan]

A few pictures I took while out on my walks recently. I love these September skies.

 

[tabbytom]

A few pictures I took while out on my walks recently. I love these September skies.

Nicely framed on the 3rd shot!

 

[Norachan]

Nicely framed on the 3rd shot!

Thank you! The flat topped mountain in the middle of the shot is Jyunigatake. I climbed it once. I nearly died.......

 

[tabbytom]

Thank you! The flat topped mountain in the middle of the shot is Jyunigatake. I climbed it once. I nearly died.......

Tougher than Mt Fuji?

 

[Norachan]

Tougher than Mt Fuji?

I`ve never climbed Fuji, so I don`t know.

Jyunigatake means Twelfth Peak, which I thought means the 12th peak in that range of mountains. You have to climb to the top of Kenashiyama first, then from there walk along the ridge until you get to the start of the trail for Jyunigatake.

"Walk along the ridge" sounds simply delightful, but it`s a lot of up and down smaller peaks. 11 of them in all, which is why Jyunigatake is called "12th".

Scaling one of the peaks on the ridge.

This was the top of 4th Peak.

Then, after you`ve been climbing for about 5 hours and your legs have turned to jelly and your heart is about to explode, you reach this.

It`s the bridge between the 11th and 12th peaks. You either have to go across this, or go back the way you came. Up and down all those other peaks.

But if you make it the views from the top of Jyunigatake are wonderful.

 

[tabbytom]

Then, after you`ve been climbing for about 5 hours and your legs have turned to jelly and your heart is about to explode, you reach this.

My legs turned jelly when I see the mountain. Yo are better than me

Lovely last shot!

 

[tabbytom]

Lake Ashinoko, Hakone, Japan

Common Coot

 

[mani]

I have a native hibiscus in the garden.. I don't have my own shot of the open flower, but they look like this:

Mine is a a darker pink, which really shows up when the flowers roll themselves up..The petals are really delicate and yet the flower manages to curl itself up so neatly... I had the open flower in a vase in the kitchen and woke up the next morning to find this.

 

[tabbytom]

Mine is a a darker pink, which really shows up when the flowers roll themselves up..The petals are really delicate and yet the flower manages to curl itself up so neatly... I had the open flower in a vase in the kitchen and woke up the next morning to find this.

Beautiful!

 

[Kwik]

mani that Hibiscus is stunning- if it were not in a glass Idve assumed it was fake! Beautiful photo

 

[lucho]

Here's a couple of shots from my balcony (taken recently, but on two different evenings)

 

[tabbytom]

Here's a couple of shots from my balcony (taken recently, but on two different evenings)

Nice sky!