Photographer's Comment: A new elemental spirit emerged from a dying Peony. Base photo shot while holding the vase in the sunlight with my left hand, my camera in my right. EFS 17-85mm IS @ 44mm with EFII 12mm extension tube, ISO 200, f/16, 1/40sec, average metering mode.

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By chomaee (2007-06-13 16:07:38 ): Daniel, I love this I can see a woodland spirit or something that's middle earth. Very nice.

By janedecle (2007-06-08 15:34:15 ): Great photo! I like the feeling of the gradient of light starting in the dark at the top and then the light coming in from the sides. Really opens your mind and imagination of what it could be. A sea creature, flower and the list goes on...

By fotostalker (2007-06-02 17:08:47 ): Thanks for your comments, lady and gentlemen! Gary, I appreciate your comment but could you clarify where you feel detail is being lost? Is it in the highlights or in the shadows. If only in shadows, there was some detail lost in the conversion to .jpg -- the darker areas did get a little bit darker. The contrast from light to dark, though, was intentional and I realize that it won't work for some viewers. Doug, as for the "eye usually," I'm not insulted at all and I did in fact try it to see how the image would change. However, the whole intent of the image, as Carl recognized, was the "elemental spirit" face that is lost in a horizontal axis flip. And oddly enough, contrary to what the "rules" of the "weight" of light and dark say, the image looks unbalance and top heavy when flipped on the horizontal axis. Anyway, thanks for all the comments. I do read, consider and appreciate them all -- even if I don't agree! Peace, Dan.

By smokeydawg (2007-06-02 14:16:35 ): I thought this might be yours Dan. I like this as is myself, Call me crazy but I see a face in this that if flipped would go away, sometimes so called rules being broken work very well and here I think it does. So yea, your right an elemental spirit emerged and you discovered it. Well done!

By DougWilkening (2007-06-02 00:46:11 ): I agree with Gary, the eye usually wants to see light on top and dark on bottom. Try flipping it 180 on the horizontal axis. (Once in an art class i was doing an oil painting and the instructor suggested that i turn it upside down, it would look better that way. In retrospect she was right, but boy was i mad at her at the time! Hope you're not insulted)

By onebadback (2007-06-01 03:11:32 ): Very nice. It really made me look close. For me it has too much light on the bottom and not enough at the top, its kind of losing some detail. This fits the theme perfect

By BeatriceFriedli (2007-06-01 00:45:59 ): wild, bizarre, I like it !

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