Thursday, April 30, 2009


While I know that the dandelion is often considered a pernicious weed, I think of it as the sky-flower. In the beginning, it resembles the sun; later, it looks like the moon; but close up, the moon is made of stars. Here it is in its night form. Using the Blue Tint effect and then taking levels to its extremes, its rendered down to its essence and looks like fireworks or some sort of cosmic stellar event.

7 comments:

  1. The top treatment is a superb bit of art, to my eye.

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  2. Very cool. Nice shot and excellent effect.

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  3. Now this treatment is really fun - never thought of using that one! It works great on all the great details in the dandelion!!

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  4. Great work. I'm a dandelion fan. The top one looks like microscopic plankton.

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  5. The treatment does make a remarkable photo. It makes the dandelion seem to be floating in air.

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  6. I love your fancy of day and night, it does look celestial, another truly creative use of the software on a cool image to begin with.

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