Blossoms

[John R]

Some shots taken at Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington. Was a beautiful sunny and windy day. Not the greatest or ideal conditions for taking foliage or blossoms but I took what I could get.

JMR

I added the colour version and a pano.

JMR

[wolfnowl]

The first two don't do much for me, but I like the third one!

Mike.

[jasonrandolph]

The blossoms give the impression of the images almost being infrared.  I like the first and third.  The second composition doesn't quite work for me.  You have two opposing forces that don't seem to blend: the sky and the trees.  I may be saying that just because it's flanked by two images where the trees are the main subject matter.  Maybe try boosting contrast a little (but keep in mind that I am biased toward high contrast)

[dalethorn]

The first two don't do much for me, but I like the third one!
Mike.

Yep - #3 is excellent.

[JeffKohn]

#1 doesn't really work for me, the branches in the foreground take up too much of the image frame and don't really add anything to the image except as a distractio IMHO.

#2 is better, you've got a really interesting sky, and the tonal range of the image is nice and full. The composition feels chopped off at the bottom though.

#3 is definitely the winner, I like everything about it, from the arrangement of the trees to the contrast between the branches and blooms. Nicely done.

[John R]

Well, the second image is an example of how one can get caught up with such a beautiful sky-cloud pattern and pretend it will minimize the not so good composition. I knew the image was not so great in colour but I cropped out the bottom (pathways) and converted to BW. The 3rd image is the opposite; it is full of dark shadows at the bottom which did not work well in colour, so I tried a BW treatment. The first, I think is reasonably good in colour and I took it specifically to try an Orton treatment effect, using two exposures sandwiched.

JMR