Arctic Spring

[Paul Lagasi]

Last June I was searching for Red-throated Pipits (no luck) on the Teller Road, 50 miles from Nome, Alaska. I climbed for a few hours up this hill in search of the bird. All around me Arctic Flowers were blooming. What a few days before had been a brown wasteland, in two days of warm sunny weather was transformed into a tapestry of color. Not sure if this will work small size. I used Topaz Clean effect.

I wish spring would show up soon, this has been the longest winter I can remember. Tomorrow were suppose to just get a bit of a snowstorm that will dump 8-10" of snow south of us. With any luck we may only get 4-5" of snow and the temperature will drop to -17C (1 F).

We've been waving the white flag for a while time for it to be over. Bring on spring.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hey, Paul, I was wondering if winter had done you in The spring colors are gorgeous - that must have been quite a sight. Spring is tantalizingly close here although it's supposed to be in the high 30's tomorrow morning. But everything is blooming and green. Hope your spring comes soon.

[Dennis Bishop]

That's a clever way to contrast the difference the sunny weather made. I like the way you distributed the colors in the frame.

Perhaps a white flag could be interpreted as a request for snow. Try waving a green one.

[Nancy Bell]

This would make a great travel poster for Alaska! Wonderfully put together with the stream dead center taking you back into the image and then the surrounding border explosion of colorful flowers! I like that there is a subdued cloudy gray sky in the stream image, as a bright blue one would distract from the bright surrounding flowers.

Here in northern Colorado we had a driving snowstorm yesterday but sunshine and calm, blue skies today with above freezing temperatures. Yeah!

[gary ellwein]

The insertion of the central landscape nicely gives the individual flower images a sense of place. This is a composition format that I will file away for future reference.

[Kerry Perkins]

Hi Paul, good to see you back safe and sound! Nice use of the collage and central image, it really works to show your intent with the image. I love the contrast of the colorful wildflowers and the gray sky of the main image. Well done!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

What a sight it must have been to see all those lovely blooms. I love that you have framed the image with a collage of flowers. Let's hope mother nature heard your call, this winter has been long and arduous:(