Where We're Planted Isn't Our Fault

Our Utata project of the moment is a simple one - go for a walk. Bring the camera. See what comes of it. The walk is technically supposed to happen Thursday morning, but I don't see the suggestion until Thursday afternoon, so it gets bumped to Friday.

To be honest, I'm not in the mood. There's a lot on my mind and I'm not feeling it. I actually go out and come back on the pretense of having forgotten something, and then oh what the hell, let's just get it done with, it's a brisk sunny breezy day and maybe it will clear the head.

Days are built of impressionable clay; what you bring out of them is so often an echo of what you bring to them. There's someone far away that I think about a lot. I'm not surprised when I find these daffodils in the same boat.

Tech specs: Canon Digital Rebel XT, 1/320 second, f/7.1, ISO 100, 50mm lens.

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The Pack says:

I think they should make a run for it! Terrific.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Insanity Infusion [deleted] says:

This is beautiful...

It looks like the flowers are whispering to each other... gossping about the loner down a few bars...

Great picture!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

cybersooz says:

Haha! We have some of these prisoners up here in Boston too... I'll let you know if I get around to posting their Boston cousins :-)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

MiRea says:

Now I would be interested to see if anyone can find anything wrong with this capture!!!!

Score 10/10 (from the Score Me!
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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

schpleep says:

Very nice. It almost looks like a selectively coloured B+W

Score 7.5/10 (from the Score Me!
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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

jenschmen says:

this is cute. i like how crisp the closer daffodils are

Score 7/10 (from the Score Me!
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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

-kÇ- says:

i would love to print this.

amazingly pleasing to my eyes
Score 10/10 (from the Score Me!
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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Zuan says:

Beautiful color and DOF, the framing and perspective is a little weird

Score 8/10 (from the Score Me!
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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Linus Gelber says:

Thanks all. I was trying to figure out how to say pretty much this for part of the afternoon, and the daffodils proved more eloquent than I. A thousand words indeed.

@schpleep, it's not desaturated exactly. I've used a partial overlay layer where the hue has been adjusted to mute a lot of the midrange tones, which leaves just the heavy guns and eases out some of the distractions in the background. The values are about the same as the original, just a bit less so where the eye doesn't need to travel. At least, that's what I hope.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

cmk53 says:

I like the way the fence provides a black background, makes the yellows jump. If it were mine I'd crop more of the left side (sidewalk) out.

(#1 from the IWANT5! group
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

popoleen [deleted] says:

first, let me say thanks for your comment and insightfulness on my foto and as well i enjoy tremendously reading your comments on others shots too...you have very good points to make and the apparent knowledge/experience to back it up...

I am ahead of the iwant5 group and so i will label this as

#0 from the iwant5 group

I think compositionaly this shot is good...the color contrasts are right on and the perspective is interesting. I eapecialy like the dof and the excellent blurred background that brings the foreground to do its job well...which is bve in the foreground...that i cannot see more than the side of the flower eis less sramitic for me and the right crop edge puts that errant flower to much in jail...i think it looses a certain amount of intensity and focus...i would hate to loose the blurred far background but perhaps to make it a better photo and bring the subject more into view it might be best.... i would hate to loose that wonderous faded and blurred sidewalk drifting away...

ciao, popo....
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

ⓙanet says:

WOAH i totally took a photo like this last week...
here
but i like yours better :)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Yi-Lin & Kevin @ 4115 Wisconsin Ave says:

I like the concept and the title. The colors of flowers and DOF has been nice too. Too bad those flowers did not face this way though.

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Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

mtkr says:

Wow
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

nj dodge says:

Very cool Linus and I like Ms. Insanity's description of the scene.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

MiRea says:

As it should be, on the explore page.

Kudos.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop! says:

I love the way daffodils appear to reach out, directing their hunger towards the sun. This illustrates this well in an artistic capture. The only marginal spoiler for me, is the brown/grey neck on the stem of one flower extreme left which takes the eye away from the main point of interest. Cropping this out possibly takes something away from the composition - leaving perhaps only a little PShop skullduggery to make this really work for me.

#3 (from the IWANT5! group)
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oybay © says:

Daffys are my favorite! Love the idea, too.

#4(from the IWANT5! group)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

RevMike88 says:

Very nice. I love the color and the way they are poking through the fence.
#5 (from the IWANT5! group)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Anikó says:

Flower-curiosity!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Linus Gelber says:

Thanks all - it's great to read your comments. Popo, yours especially is beyond kind, and I'm touched.

MiRea, it's always cool when one of my shots sneaks in to the top 100 or so, though they tend not to last there very long - zooommm, down to the 300's. So it goes.

A-Wop-Bop, I see what you mean - it doesn't bug me at the moment, but I can see how it might catch your eye. I'll look at it again down the line, we'll see how it goes.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Light Collector says:

Meanwhile, back at the prison, the Daffodil Gang made their bid for freedom. Too late they found, that they had put down roots and could do no more than lean into the outside world trough the cold bars restraining them.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

leeontheroad says:

:-)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Catherine Jamieson says:

Yah. I hear ya. I stopped on the corner the other day. Weirdly stuck between wanting to go back home and to go forward to the river where I'd been aiming. Equidistant points. I actually leaned on the lamp post for a moment and ... you know ... waited for a decision to arrive. Heh.

Great shot.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

jen (pluie latéralement) says:

oh, the caption is just wonderful. it made me pause.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Linus Gelber says:

Thanks, Rain. I'm glad you stopped by to read.

CJ, late late late in answering - but thanks for looking. It always makes me smile when you turn up here.

And Whitebeard, I read it a different way, but there's always a place for a good prison break story.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Jim_Higham says:

Cool!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Abigail Lee says:

I just love this photo. I wish I could favorite it twice.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

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