Proxy Garden

Posted by Dornbrau (Colorado Springs, United States) on 8 April 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

I love flowers. Unfortunately my gardening skills leave a lot to be desired. I do not have a green thumb. If anything, I have a gangrene thumb. Every plant I touch dies. My whole lawn died. Not just the front, but the back yard as well. I call it 'zero-scaping'.

Sadly I must depend on parks and public gardens to satisfy my hunger for botanicals. This particular bed of flowers caught my eye with its simplistic beauty. I softened the focus and increased the saturation to create my dream wildflower garden.

* Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Comments (18)

Mike Cash from Kiryu, Japan

I love the surreal effect the post-processing gave it. There's something almost ominous about the flowers.

8 Apr 2007 5:48am

Stephanie from Hesperia, United States

Lovely capture and technique Dornbrau. It does feel surreal, larger than life...almost as if the hard armor of the center of the flower is protecting its delicate petals.

8 Apr 2007 6:01am

Pedro Alexandre from Loures, Portugal

Nice lightning here, beatifull image.

8 Apr 2007 3:32pm

Mo from Tehran, Iran

Lovely photo. I like the softness, gives it a dream-like quality.

8 Apr 2007 8:31pm

Still from France

Stunning colours!

8 Apr 2007 9:01pm

juant3 from Bremen, Germany

Beautiful photo and effect... I just hope you didn't touch them... Smile!!!

8 Apr 2007 9:31pm

Christian from Quebec, Canada

Belle photo! effet de lumière superbe, bravo

8 Apr 2007 11:20pm

Anoop from Hyderabad, India

The backlighting gives it a glow and creates an different-world feeling. Nice, warm and soft. Did you use any softening filter/post processing?

9 Apr 2007 6:22am

Srikaanth from Bengalooru, India

Dont touch the green with ur thumb buddy, touch only with ur camera...

Beautiful work in deed!!

9 Apr 2007 8:47am

Rui Borges from Sintra, Portugal

Beautiful work. Looks like coming out of a dream.

9 Apr 2007 9:49am

Laurie from New Jersey, United States

I think you made up for the lack of gardening skills with the flower photography. This is really lovely.

I am also not a good gardener. It's a lot of work and I just don't do it very well. Although I continue to try. If there was a law about plant abuse or neglect, I'd probably be in jail by now.

9 Apr 2007 5:20pm

ajoeh from Mataram, Indonesia

Beautiful.. each petal looks like having its own lighting.

10 Apr 2007 1:18am

Stunner from Kingston, Jamaica

Beutiful shot and wonderful effect, it does look dreamy!

10 Apr 2007 1:21am

jamsheed from calicut, India

nice colors!!!!

10 Apr 2007 7:28am

Mark from birmingham, United Kingdom

very nice! love the colour very warm good shot!

10 Apr 2007 9:57am

Mia from Cin City, United States

LOVE the glow

12 Apr 2007 12:51am

Tempting Lisa from Canberra, Australia

Haha, I have the same problem too when it comes to gardening. Get hardy plants that will take great effort to kill but needed only low maintenance. COne flower will keep on flowering for a couple of years with minimal attention. :-) And yes, great shot. Very dreamy .... :-)

13 Apr 2007 2:12pm

Evi from Athens, Greece

Nice work, wonderful details!

13 Apr 2007 3:14pm

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