**Comment Thread for April Contest.**
Make conversation.
Submission thread is here:http://www.democraticunderground.com/103628684
Have fun
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Great job!
That's an actual picture frame in the photo. Just in case...
You need to check the comment link in your submissions thread. It goes to "make a post" instead of to the comment thread.
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for their entry? I think it's going to be cloudy here tonight.
We had a gorgeous moon last night. Or is anyone going to lie on her (his back)
to shoot up through a flowering tree with an eclipsing moon in the background?
love your entry!
Thank you very much, Handmade. It's my first try here. Glad the first comment was such a nice one. And thanks for the warm welcome, Alfredo!
I have a bleeding heart photo that I considered for an entry, too!
But it was taken last spring. My bleeding heart is just poking up from
the ground--not blooming yet--since our spring is so late this year.
Nice shot!
I am so impressed! Makes me glad I had no time for photography this month. 
However, I thought I would give the daffodils a try any way. 
After seeing the previous "help me decide" thread, I needed to step up my efforts. 
I first tried the Nik Silver Efex. It was pretty good, but I wanted to try my hand at it...
Played with the color mixer in the b/w conversion.
Added a hi-pass filter. The blend mode got me what I was looking for!
Here's to no one entering a infra-red image! 
and besides ... what's wrong with ir?
me like ir 
Thus they need to be disqualified. BANNED, I tell you!!!!!
I stayed with the darker contrast for the B&W. The lighting was fairly dark in the original, there was very little post processing used, but I felt the dark contrast created a little more drama.
What can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic.
I've randomized with the randomizer linked in her post. Did not like the results much but went with it out of principle.
Then someone (who actually got tombstoned for something else later 
) criticized my order and accused me of maybe trying to skew results through the grouping.
So now, if and when I do it, I just use them as they come in and let the arrival of the entries determine the order.
It also eliminates some work- heaven knows it's enough work already
by taking the ones you think are the top picks and spreading them between the three groups in the hope that they make the finals for a nicely difficult final round.
but here are my lilies in color... just because
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Here's my whatever they are. I like it a lot better in B&W
the entire emotion changes.
The softness of the color in the lilies is just wonder-ful.
here my original:
in B&W... it is so dreamy and makes me want to be in the photo... of course, you know I love the woods more than any other place
by the way Mira... do you bike... I thought maybe we could do a little bike ride or hike when I come your way... just pulled into Virginia Beach today and next stop (approx. 2+ weeks) will be North Carolina...
let out a long german curse
i can't bike, garden, take photos, kayak, and above all swim.
i have a broken wrist that is seemingly barely improving.
WHINE
i live next door to the YW - well, 4 min. walk - and i swim 30 min 5-6 times a week. i miss the swimming the most.
in va beach i would go to the edgar cayce institute.
when you visit there is nevertheless a lot of nice green stuff to see or do. this is a very good town.
can't wait to see you, even though the bike is parked for now.
thanks for liking my photo, i did not even look further once it was converted. i was forced to submit it
ugh about the wrist... positive thoughts for quicker healing.. 
Kreizkruzifixhimmiherrgottsakramentscheissglumpvarrecktsjamileckstamorsch...
Here´s a long German curse (Bavarian style) to copy and paste with minimal fuss...
Fun idea to show the color photos.
Here are the dogwood
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makes me want to touch and smell them (DO Dogwood blossoms have a scent?)
lucky you though... where I was there was not much new growth or flowers so I went to the store and bought a plant to photograph 
learning SO much about B&W photography. Thanks for that. What conditions typically make
a brilliant color pic - do not work for B&W - almost the opposite. Same with lighting and time
of day too. Oddly, I am having better results at times it is not good to take color.
All that said, I feel like I am committing a mortal sin draining the spectacular colors
out of spring.:>
we can be a productive and inspirational group
and I agree with your comment of draining out the color - yet your infusing drama.
with the B&W of that Photo
your wondering about too much wildlife made me think of this one shot I have
I call it "Fly? What fly?"
I love the snail ... it gives the image a narrative
That's a beautiful shot! Taken on the fly? Didn't think so... The snail was a challenge - most of the times, you set up your gear, and vooom, they're gone.
Oh! Heck, yeah!
When the contest was first announced that tree had no blooms so I had something else entirely in mind for my photo. Mother Nature was very good to me.
I've missed checking out everyone's photos every day. I have a new job and have been very busy.
"Alfredo is still missing"
Hope that's okay.
