Anita's Photoblog
Dahlia
Posted by Anita (West Nottingham, United States) on 24 September 2008 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
I love the curls in the center of this Dahlia. This is one growing in my garden.
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Veerendra from Pune, India
wow .. so crisp details. beautiful colors and dof ..
liked compose too..
24 Sep 2008 6:21am
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
Beautiful details in the heart of the dahlia.
24 Sep 2008 9:59am
Paul Michko from Exton, PA, United States
WOW, I just love the curly petals on this. Striking clarity and wonderful composition, Anita.
24 Sep 2008 10:32am
Sue from United States
The first thing that caught my eye was the curls. Must have caught everyone else's too! :) Marcie said it best!
24 Sep 2008 1:23pm
jamesy from christchurch, New Zealand
Beautiufl Anita I have never seen a dahlia with curly petals before
25 Sep 2008 1:13am
@jamesy: I don't think they are supposed to curl. At a Dahlia Society show I went to on Sunday, there were no curling petals like these. But I have seen them curl on this particular type of Dahlia, not only in my garden.
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
Oh, there you go again with those curls . . wonderful !!
25 Sep 2008 9:14pm
susan from Belleville, United States
So pretty! I like the curling petals too :)
25 Sep 2008 10:29pm
Nina from Hamburg, Germany
Wonderful details and a very pretty Dahlia...I love the softness of those beautiful flowers curls!
25 Sep 2008 11:19pm
akarui from Kagoshima, Japan
Very nice composition focusing on the curves petals.
26 Sep 2008 12:56am
John Maslowski from Dallas,PA, United States
Wow, this one just blows me away. The colors and tones are awesome. Excellent framing too. Absolutely a great composition.
26 Sep 2008 1:50am
David Ross from Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
Trying to be specific: Great choice to center the flower in lower right and take it from this angle. It's easy to overlook the contribution of the background shading. I had to really stare to realize that the back-most petals are starting the blur, the sharpness of the curls "convinces" the viewer that the the entire flower is sharp. Lucious!
26 Sep 2008 4:00pm
Monique from Netherlands
Very pretty! Love the curls and the colours,
beautiful point of view
29 Sep 2008 11:19am
Konica Minolta MAXXUM 5D
1/160 second
F/10.0
ISO 400
150 mm (35mm equiv.)