Upside Down Bouquet

[Julie Kenward]

One of my new favorite tulip images, this is a handful of tulips flopping over the side of the vase. It reminds me of a handful of baloons floating above my head.

Canon 40D, EF
f10 @ 1/40th, ISO 200
Manual mode, pattern metering, Sunny WB
Handheld, braced by my arm on the deck the vase sat on.
Processed in ACR & CS4 - slight adjustment to saturation (decreased magentas, increased greens) and a levels adjustment to bring up the light tones.

[Mike Fuhr]

I really like this unusual composition -- who would have thought to look at this angle?? Not me. Great colors and lighting. Love it!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

This is really lovely Julie. Just love it. Great perspective, colours, and framing:)

[Kaushik Balakumar]

:) a very different perspective.
Nicely composed image.

[Dave Mills]

Your right Julie...It does look like balloons.Your placement of the stems leading you to the flowers is nicely done.
Your choice of cropping is excellent also...

[denise ippolito]

Julie, Really something special!! I love the stems and backside of flowers.

[Richard Lovison]

I like the composition and the unusual angle of view for flowers. Very creative and beautifully executed. Even though your primary focus is in the lower left hand rule-of-thirds position and works for me, I wonder if this image was a strong candidate for a multi-focus merge as I feel all the tulips and stems play an important part in this photograph.

[Bruce Murden]

Lovely image and nice graphic. I really like seeing the lesser-seen side of things, and the multi-colored petals and the curves of the stems. I would have liked to see the right hand stem have some more curve or angle to it. It starts out straight and detracts a bit from the dynamic feel of the rest of the image.