Two sunflowers from the summer of 1998
jietcomm, rinmanhayashi, chutney, Asiunka, and 12 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Chrisser 88 months ago | reply
Thank you for the comments, marlenells adnd btobin. If you look very closely to the sunflower on the right, you will see two parts sticking up towards the top of that sunflower. That is a butterfly landing on that sunflower.
_wintermute 87 months ago | reply
Very nice Chrisser :) I've added a crop suggestion, which I think removes any distractions :) Admittedly it ends up with a square photo, but I think it would work ok.
Tony.
Chrisser 87 months ago | reply
Tony, I agree with your suggestion. I can just go to one of my photo albums, turn on my all-in-one printer that is also used for scanning, scan that photo, and then crop it and then use the Replace option that is only available for Pro users and replace the photo. :-)
_wintermute 87 months ago | reply
Hi Chrisser, if you download a program called irfanview www.irfanview.com/ it allows you to crop existing photo's and resave them with a different name. It is free too! I wouldn't replace the existing one, upload the new cropped version as a new photo, and if you like link back to the original.
If you have one of the photo editing programs like photoshop elements, paint shop pro or similar they should also allow cropping.
Tony.
Chrisser 87 months ago | reply
Tony, I have programs like Adobe Photo Shop 5.5, Picture It! Express 7.0 I use to edit scanned photos, ArcSoft Photo Impression 4.0, Picasa 2.1, and Olympus Camedia Master 4.2 that will only work with photos taken with my digital camera.
_wintermute 87 months ago | reply
fair enough, I thought when you said you were going to rescan, that you must use the scanning software to crop :) I keep copies on my computer of everything I have scanned, and rarely go back and re-scan stuff, unless I have learnt a new trick that will give a better result :)
Tony.
Chrisser 87 months ago | reply
Tony, the scanning program is not for cropping. Below is the link to the cropped version of that photo.
www.flickr.com/photos/chrisser/122247277/
Chrisser 87 months ago | reply
Also, since I have permission to save any of the photos I have uploaded here, I can just simply right-click on a photo and go to Save As... where I will get a numerical filename that I can rename as a better name and use that to edit instead of scanning the photo in again. And I keep backups of my photos on CDs.
Chrisser 84 months ago | reply
The cropped version of this photo is already in the Flower Factory pool, but isn't being removed and reposted unless the admins send a suggestion. Also, some photos where the sky is the background have the sky overcast, and that makes me unsure about posting. And there is a threat of more rain today, and that means no photos at all today. Oh well. :-)
freemysoul 84 months ago | reply
I think the cropped version would do well too Christina,
but in fact I'm more fond of rectangular pictures!!
I love this one!!
Congratulations this an
Admin Flower Factory Fave.
Chrisser 84 months ago | reply
Thanks for the comments and for posting this as an Admin Fave in Flower Factory, Sabine. I also prefer rectangular photos, but there were a few times I uploaded an exact same photo TWICE, forcing me to either save a copy and convert to black-and-white and sepia, or to save a copy, crop it and replace the second upload. I need to learn to not make these mistakes anymore. :-)
OceanRudy 76 months ago | reply
Very beautiful photo...nice colors and contrast!
Chrisser 76 months ago | reply
Thanks, Rudy. :-)
Asiunka 75 months ago | reply
I really like the angle you took this shot from. The colors are also terrific.
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LynchburgVirginia ★ 75 months ago | reply
excellent a very wonderful image and glad you shared this from years gone by.
well done.
Chrisser 75 months ago | reply
Thanks for the comments and for the NaturesFinest photo invite, Asiunka. :-)
Chrisser 75 months ago | reply
Thanks, LynchburgVirginia. :-)
~ Aoi 59 months ago | reply
wonderful !
Alev Başaran (arkeolog59) 52 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Group Sunflowers (post 2&comment 2) Please only sunflower photo., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
www.flickr.com/groups/group_sunflowers/
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mezzapod 52 months ago | reply
wonderful colour constrasts