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Copyright: Grzegorz Wieczorek (red45) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2840 W: 75 N: 8085] (27387)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-03-30
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Canon EOS 400D, Canon EFS 18-55mm f3.5-5.6
Exposure: f/8, 1/1000 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-03-30 10:31
Viewed: 600
Points: 24
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My first photo from long time. My first photo of flower this year. First try with my dSLR this spring. First really warm day this year by the way :-) Composition is experimental, next tries should be better, I promisse :-)

Anemone nemorosa is an early-spring flowering plant in the Genus Anemone in the family Ranunculaceae. Common names include wood anemone, windflower, European thimbleweed and smell fox. They are perennial herbaceous plants, growing in early spring from 5 to 15 cm tall. Plants start blooming soon after the foliage emerges from the ground, with the leaves parted into three segments and the flowers produced in the middle of the foliage on short stems above the foliage with one flower per stem. The plants grow from underground stems called rhizomes. The plants die back down to the root-like rhizomes by mid summer (summer dormant). The rhizomes spread just below the soil surface, forming long spreading clumps that grow quickly, contributing to its rapid spread in woodland conditions, where they often carpet large areas.

The flower is 2 cm diameter, with six or seven petal-like segments (actually tepals) with many stamens. In the wild the flowers are usually white, but may be pinkish, lilac or blue, and often have a darker tint to the back of the 'petals'. The flowers lack both fragrance and nectar and it has been suggested by some authors that they are primarily self-pollinated, but it has also been demonstrated that they are pollinated by bees and other insects that visit the flowers to collect pollen (Shirreffs 1985).

The plant has poisonous chemicals that are toxic to animals including humans, but it has also been used as a medicine. All parts of the plant contain protoanemonin, which can cause severe skin and gastrointestinal irritation.
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Hi Grzegorz,

Congratulations with your first shot! It looks really supper. You managed the light very well. Nice detaills and the main flower was very nice seperated fom blurry BG.

Bravo and TFS.
Greetings
Fevzi

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2224 W: 10 N: 6266] (23542)
  • [2008-03-30 10:54]

Hi Grzegorz. Good to see you posting again and a nice close up of the bright flower to come back with . You have fine detail and natural colour with good use ofthe light. well done TFS
Nick..

Hi greg,
long time no see ;-) It's great to See you again-
I hope everything is well with you, Joanna and junior.
This is a great sign of spring. Well composed with very good details.
Well done old friend.
Today was the first spring day after the return of the winter and I even saw a butterfly.

Hi Grzegorz,
Very beautiful picture of this flower. Absolutely perfect DOF and awesome details and exposure. Very subtke colors throughout this excellent composition.

TFS
Kirti

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2678 W: 173 N: 8282] (26095)
  • [2008-03-30 12:45]

Hello Grzegorz,
Congratulations on your first flower this year and I think it's the first Wood Anemone on TN this year. I look forward to seeing them out here soon! This is a beautiful composition with the corner flower sharply in focus and the others as a soft background. Excellent capture in lovely colours!
TFS and regards, Ulla

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1132 W: 6 N: 3128] (11576)
  • [2008-03-30 13:03]

Hi Grzegorz,i like a lot this flower,here there are a lot,wonderfull choice of light and background to show this beauty,my best compliments,Luciano

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  • gondox Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 296 W: 66 N: 255] (1263)
  • [2008-03-30 13:16]

Hi Grzegorz!

I think the composition is very fine, only a bit more space would be better at the bottom. Expo is wonderful, brings out all the details! Lighting and dof are perfect. TFS!

Best regards,
Andor

Hy Grzegorz
Now marking, late with the comments
Oana

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3233 W: 154 N: 4939] (15899)
  • [2008-03-31 9:44]

Hi Grzegorz.
Your DSLR camera works so perfectly as compact one. It works very well in winter and in spring :))).

Cute spring sunny shot of beautiful flowers. Excellent exposure and colour reproduction of all flower features and especially of petals. I like crisp sharpness of the image despite kit lens. Or is it new version of a kit lens? First one was soft a bit as I know. Blurred BG is amazing and decorates the main subject excellently. Well done and TFS.
Alexei with best wishes.

Kia ora Grzegorz
Kei te pēhea koe? Is all ka pai with you and your whanau?

This is a beautiful flower, my friend Greg. I love it.

And I have visited your latest photos - 'Ale mam wielkie stopy.... po tacie :-)' and see your little man sitting up and I think he'll be crawling soon too. What a happy chappy he is Greg.

Cam's new babe is due NOW.

Best regards to you and Joanna
Janice

Hi Greg,
Welcome back. Hope everybody including you, Joanna and Michael (Jun. Greg) is well. A lovely capture of this beautiful flower. It seems you have mastered the EOS 400D. I hope you have made some experiments with DCR250 attached with it. Thanks a lot for sharing this beauty.

Czesc Grzesiu
Piekny wiosenny obrazek. Nastepna piekna fotka do kolekcji. Dobrze naswietlone i ostre i fajnie wygladaja rozmyte kwiaty w tle
Super ;-)
Pozdrawiam
Krzysiek

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