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Canna Leaves

Canna Leaves
Russ Martin (Wappingers Falls, NY)
Photographed September 2008, Poughkeepsie, New York

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Simple but very mysterious -- reminds me of paintings by Geogia O'Keefe

While this is a gentle, very textural photo with lovely lines, i do not feel mystery. I do feel the beauty of the earth , though, an almost musical flow of line. Quite peaceful and almost perfect.

Beautiful tonality. The point of focus is excellent,since one could not get all of the scene into focus. The picture has a sence of movement eith the leaves taking off or pointing in different directions. It is very graceful and soothing. The leaves seem to be light in color like they may have been filtered, this adds to the beauty, drama and contrast of the picture. This is a simple subject with which the artist has brought much to the table.

Recently saw a program about "fractals" and the fourth dimension in math. Wonder if this would be an example then, of the repetition in nature.

Someone once said that this picture does not look altered. I want to clear the air as to what I did to create it. It started out as a color image. Everything was very green. Then, I converted it to black and white. However, the gray tonalities didn't give it a warm feeling. So, next I used a quadtone effect and colored it brown. Lastly, it was burned and dodged, and many imperfections in the veins of the leaves were removed. The subject was backlighted which brought them out.

Knocked my socks off! Elegant.

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