bluechameleon
willows (weeping)
Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 28 April 2009 in Landscape & Rural.
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
-- Walt Whitman
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Toni from Eastern Washington, United States
This is so very pretty - it looks like a watercolor painting. Beautiful!
28 Apr 2009 5:33am
k@ from Paris, France
I juste
L.O.V.E.
the sweet wind I can so well feel within these magnificient & luminous willows !
And those colors ! Fab pic that makes me feel good thanks to your soul, Sharon* Thank you ~
28 Apr 2009 6:29am
Krims@nline.be from Wemmel, Belgium
Wow, i' don't know how to say it, but this talks to me. What a mood. Definattely a masterpiece. Congrats Sharon!
28 Apr 2009 6:30am
Jean-François from Les Issambres, France
AAAAAAAAAH que j'aime cet effet ...................................... !!!!!!
28 Apr 2009 6:30am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
Stunning like an oil painting!!! It feels like there is a bit of a relflection about the image!
28 Apr 2009 7:11am
Howard F. from South Pasadena, Calif., United States
Yeah, pinhole!!! The double-double composition is good, and I think you picked the right tree for a pinhole shot because the slender willow branch looks like strokes of water color dabbles.
28 Apr 2009 7:36am
rhys from United Kingdom
very interesting, I was given a pin hole camera for Christmas and have not yet used it! Maybe I should.
28 Apr 2009 7:42am
P J W Miller from Chase Terrace, United Kingdom
Excellent treatment on this image to make it look like the observer is weeping and looking at it through crying eyes
28 Apr 2009 8:03am
@P J W Miller: Thanks Peter, but there is no treatment on this image, just a straight scan. This was shot with a pinhole camera using 135mm film. In this case, straight out of the camera :)
Zahai from Berlin, Germany
beautiful composition and tones, and fascinating blur effect... indeed, as if watching the scene through tear drowned eyes...
28 Apr 2009 8:19am
zOOm from Paris, France
W. Whitman was a remarkable poet. This quote suits so well this faery picture Sharon. A world in itself.
28 Apr 2009 10:51am
Alivia from Saint-Etienne, France
dans le flou des feuillafe et le trouble de l'eau.. une évasion en rêve bleu.
28 Apr 2009 11:03am
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
The pinhole lets thru so much that glass filters out . . this is a delight.
28 Apr 2009 11:37am
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
I really like this HOLGA effect. A photo from the 1940s. Excellent!
28 Apr 2009 11:38am
Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada
Wonderful PP treatment Sharon! It is almost as if I were seeing the picture through tear clouded eyes. (Obviously, they are tears of JOY!) ;-))
28 Apr 2009 11:49am
Marcie from United States
Gorgeous color and painterly effect. Love the composition and processing.
28 Apr 2009 11:50am
Hiro from Kyoto, Japan
Pinhole camera ! I wonder what technique you used. Anyway, it's cool.
28 Apr 2009 12:19pm
@Hiro: Thank you Hiro :) No technique, just an 8 second expousure.
jeff (aka dogilicious) from Millerstown, PA, United States
Great feeling of motion in this shot. Nicely captured.
28 Apr 2009 12:29pm
vu@granby - Wolfgang from Granby, Québec, Canada
A superb pinhole shot, very good!
28 Apr 2009 12:31pm
Viewfinder from Bradenton, FL, United States
Another dreamscape, this time in beautiful color.
28 Apr 2009 12:45pm
Lee from Fort Frances Ontario, Canada
Another of your magnificent creations. Well done Sharon. The image and quate are perfectly matched.
28 Apr 2009 1:11pm
Tracey from Maryland, United States
My favorite tree. I grew up with two weeping willows in my back yard. I miss them terribly. My husbands swears he will buy two for me and plant them along the stream. I hope he keeps his promise. Thanks for the trip back to my childhood!
28 Apr 2009 1:20pm
Monique from Koh Samui, Thailand
Perfect post processing for these weeping willows ... they really look so sad, but yet it's a romantic scenery!
28 Apr 2009 1:22pm
dj.tigersprout from New York City, USA, United States
so soft -- and so wonderfully dreamy!!! i think we may both be living a waking dream BC!!! :) faaabulous indeed!
28 Apr 2009 1:42pm
Evelyne Dubos from Le Mans, France
A lovely creative one, like the dream feeling.
28 Apr 2009 1:57pm
dobbino from Cape Town, South Africa
Super "call back the past" image - your are quite adventurous, aren't you?
28 Apr 2009 3:54pm
Don from spokane, United States
The weeping willow seems so well named. I like the special lighting that makes your shot feel so alive!
Nice shooting.
28 Apr 2009 3:56pm
Nathan from Los Angeles, United States
Love this shot. There's a sense of relaxation and dreaminess to it.
28 Apr 2009 4:29pm
Sien from Valkenswaard, Netherlands
Great effect sharon.
And a fantastic composition
Your background and processing works very well!
Have a nice day
Grz Sien
28 Apr 2009 4:58pm
Liang from San Francisco, United States
sensational display of colors here on the trees, like a painting too!
28 Apr 2009 5:05pm
mo.langel from Courtelary, Switzerland
Belle image, une impression d'être dans un rêve! Superbe!!!
28 Apr 2009 5:11pm
Stef67 from in my head, France
woa une peinture, un tableau, une œuvre, beau j adore ^^
28 Apr 2009 6:32pm
Susan from Savannah, United States
Lovely shot and the blur works beautifully here!
28 Apr 2009 6:33pm
beanow from Warsaw, Poland
I agree with above mentioned comments... Well can I more say? BRAVO!
28 Apr 2009 6:45pm
dkc from Xanthi, Greece
So happy to see that pinhole cameras are still working and give such wonderful photos. Great idea for the shot!
28 Apr 2009 8:50pm
Virgil from Richmond, United States
Nice color.......was this taken through a window? Hope you've had a good day. :-)
28 Apr 2009 9:36pm
john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Marvelous light. Excellent selective focus.
28 Apr 2009 10:22pm
martie from somewhere, United States
So soft and graceful - yet in spite of the warm color - so alone! Well done!
29 Apr 2009 1:06am
Nataly from Santa Monica, United States
Amazing tones and texture! Beauty of pinhole! Gorgeous!
29 Apr 2009 1:17am
John Maslowski from Dallas, PA, United States
Lovely effect with these willow trees, the golden tones are simply gorgeous. A stunning and beautiful composition.
29 Apr 2009 1:35am
Mike from United States
I'm a sucker for willows in general, but when they are made to look extra dreamy and inviting... even better. Love the tones in this. They all go together quite nicely.
29 Apr 2009 2:08am
michele from Canada
words aren't good enough for this. the color and movement are exquisite.
29 Apr 2009 2:21am
amy from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Brilliant!! Another absolutely breathtaking image, Sharon!
29 Apr 2009 3:41am
One from Açores, Portugal
With this blurring effect the image looks like a painting. Excellent work !
29 Apr 2009 4:23am
Ivar from Indianapolis, United States
Love the processing and light in this shot... and as always great mood
29 Apr 2009 4:28am
Phototherapy from Switzerland
Totally impressionist ;) I like the empty benches, the colors are singing so well together... Sometimes, it's better to have nobody in the field :)
29 Apr 2009 8:32pm
Maddy from Romania
Wow, this really is amazing, has that special charm about it!
Now I got even more excited about trying it out :)
29 Jun 2009 12:29am
Massimo from Raleigh, United States
You can't hear me but I am clapping!
The colors are awesome and what a composition!
Bravissima!
15 Jul 2009 3:34pm
