Well, the trillium 'season' comes to an end. The flowers are rapidly fading away until next year. In many ways, their short lived nature adds to what makes them so special. It is truly an amazing experience to be out in the forest alone, surrounded by hundreds of these beautiful plants.
I have to say, I really enjoyed and appreciated the feedback and suggestions regarding my photographic 'pursuit' of trillium. And so, I offer my last trillium shots of the year:
"Peeking Out"Copyright Howard Grill
Below is a shot of the elusive yellow trillium. The yellow trillium here in Pennsylvania seem very different than the images I get when I Google 'Yellow Trillium', and yet this is definitely trillium (to the best of my knowledge). They have a yellow tint, the park ranger said there were yellow trillium at that site, and, other than for the center, these looked just like the white trillium plants and, in fact, were growing amongst them.
"Yellow Trillium"Copyright Howard Grill
Finally, I return to the image that I had 'in my head' and mentioned in my first trillium post. The concept was of a 'sea of white', and I think I have gotten close this time. The question is, can an image of hundreds of flowers work when only one of the flowers is in focus?
"Sea Of White"
Copyright Howard Grill
Copyright Howard Grill
Work or not, the best part is that there is always next year.........
9 comments:
Very nice Howard. I particularly like "Peeking Out", and the way you have balanced the yellow with an equal patch of green in the upper corner.
And I think that yes, the final image of one in focus flower out of 100's works quite well. I find that the out of focus 'sea' gives a better feel for the expanse of flowers present. A fully in focus view wouldn't work as well in my opinion.
Thanks Chris. I also think the last one works. I had to crop it so that there wasn't as much blank space to the right and left of the foreground flower, which meant cropping out some of the distant 'sea'. I also wish there were another flower or two in focus near the front one with hundreds out of focus in the back, but at the end I feel it expresses what I was thinking. I had to get down very low to keep all the flowers in the back of the image. My back could feel it after a few minutes of framing.
Howard:
'peeking out' is absolutely gorgeous - well done!
George
Cobgrats on all of these images, Howard. I really like them, especially the last one where the out of focus opposite the in focus flower is so effective.
Ooops... Howard, is there a way you can change the url of my last comment with the url to my wordpress blog? I hit the wrong button an chose an old blogger account identiy instead. Thanks a lot :)
Sil, sorry, as far as I know I can't get into that to make any changes because the comment profiles are from your account
Peeking out is great Howard. Wish I took that one.
I think the last one works also. The white is a bit bright for me against the dark leaves - so I am a bit undecided whether I would rather see it toned down a little. But I keep going back to sea of white - and it certainly represents that. Personal choice.
Thanks Mark. I go back and forth on how much contrast to use on the last one as well.
mmmmm.....very beautiful! Thank you.
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