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Violet...but not violet

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Get it? Get it? It's a violet but it's white! Ha!

Okay, okay, enough. I've probably ruined any interest you had in this picture with my bad, bad jokes. But anyway…the violets have been popping up all over the place and I've been getting a lot of good pictures--I'll probably do a sort of compilation picture soon, of the various violets from different angles. But I like this one so much it gets to be all by itself. On the one hand, it looks like very much my usual style, i.e. light shining through the flower whenever possible, rather than reflecting off it. But on the other hand, I think it's somehow different, I think because of the simplicity of the lines and the colors in the background (the yellow is a bunch of GIANT forsythia). Anyway, I'll let you be the judge.

Also, I had quite a bit of fun taking this picture, and by that I mean I got caught in some rather compromising positions. See, violets are not big, and they grow very close to the ground, so getting the camera under them is not easy. Fortunately, this one was growing right on the edge of the bank down to the little creek that runs through the gardens, so I was able to lie on my stomach on the little slope and get underneath the flower. So imagine me with dirt and twigs in my hair, my shirt all scrunched up from shifting position on my stomach, completely oblivious to anything but my camera and the flower in front of me, and up walks a whole group of my friends. Yeah.
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493x576px 215.21 KB
Make
OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD
Model
C750UZ
Shutter Speed
10/8000 second
Aperture
F/4.5
Focal Length
15 mm
ISO Speed
50
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blu-paws's avatar
I love those tints of violet in there. Great composition and I'm sure it was worth the compromising positions. ;)