The Ottawa Tulip Festival is one of the biggest in the world with over 3 million tulips. Ottawa provided a safe haven for members of the Dutch royal family during World War 2 who began a tradition of gifting thousands of tulip bulbs each year to the people of Canada to symbolize international friendship. Tulips tend to appear surreal when they are illuminated both by reflected light and by transmitted light (backlight) simultaneously. I attempted to superboost the colors but there was no significant increase in color saturation so I left the saturation at its default value.
Ronen M, juliepea, jowwita, cnadia, and 19 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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3dphoto.net 71 months ago | reply
Did you tiptoe through them :?) Nice capture.
neat1325 71 months ago | reply
That is beautiful
jpctalbot 71 months ago | reply
3dphoto.net : I did not step into to tulip bed. There are signs forbidding people from trampling the tulips and they provide a special cobblestone path in some of the tulip beds, however I did see some 'enthusiastic' shutterbugs ignore the rules and get down among them!
Ronen M 71 months ago | reply
Congratulations my friend.
Great work ! Definitely ONE OF A KIND !!!
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mike_zellers 71 months ago | reply
like what you did with this - your shot does a great job of capturing the scene
Christina T 71 months ago | reply
I vote for this photo in the Lonely Planet Publications group's Festivals challenge
Wow, I lived in Ottawa 4 years and was never once in town for the tulip festival :) I wish I'd seen it!
Cowtools 71 months ago | reply
Very pretty shot, and quite an interesting backstory.
Swiv 71 months ago | reply
I vote for this photo in the Lonely Planet Publications group's Festivals challenge
makita ^ 71 months ago | reply
I vote for this photo in the Lonely Planet Publications group's Festivals challenge
roger.salz 71 months ago | reply
I vote for this photo in the Lonely Planet Publications group's Festivals challenge
ElWanderer 71 months ago | reply
Great shot. The tulips almost look painted... :)
K. W. Sanders 66 months ago | reply
Beautiful.
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Ava Babili 64 months ago | reply
The light is amazing! My fave too!
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Lord of the Wings© 61 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Ottawa Tulip Festival, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Corwin's Trumps 54 months ago | reply
Absolutely beautiful!
Jill Browne 53 months ago | reply
Hello,
I'm planning to use this picture in an upcoming blog post - the picture inspired the post.
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The post is presently scheduled to go live on Jan. 18/09.
canada.skiponover.com/tulips-on-parliament-hill-ottawa-ca...
Thanks for sharing this fine picture - beautiful colours & light,
jill
calgary
wbell539 38 months ago | reply
Lovely translucent effect. Thank you for posting this. We hope it is alright with you that we are using a portion of your photo for a non-profit website at www.nwelrc.ca. You are credited as jpctalbot.
Bill Bell
Selkirk, ON
scrapping61 36 months ago | reply
Beautiful shot
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Bakar_88 34 months ago | reply
Beautiful colors!
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