The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
The pink ladies in our back field were apparently little affected by the Carr Fire. This photo was made about one month after the fire. Evening was falling and the pink flowers against the dark gray and brown landscape were astonishing.
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The flowers give a glimmer of hope, I think, Does that come through?
Technical Details
Camera: SONY ILCE-7
Lens: FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
Focal length: 37mm
Shutter speed: 10s
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 1000
Bonnie: What a wonderful tale this tells. seeing these little beauties blooming in the midst of devastation is encouraging and hopeful for a fuller recovery. I’m undecided about the two little blooms on the left as they do pull my eye a tiny bit. I don’t think I would crop them away because that would remove too much of that wonderful BG. Perhaps some judicious removal might help but I’ll be curious what others think. Great entry for the challenge.>=))>
Powerful. Nature has a way of rejuvenating itself after devastation. This is a really great example of how adaptive our planet is to whatever we throw it’s way and we are throwing a lot it’s way recently.
Absolutely! In spades. One of the best before and after images I’ve seen in a long time. The perfectly formed flowers just appear to be thriving amongst the angst of the burn area and they seem so happy and colorful. Very powerful. I don’t mind the stray flower off to the left as it provides balance but I also like what @Bill_Fach did in removing them.
As a side note, I love the shape and form of the completely burnt tree in the background on the right edge. If you can, I might go back to this spot and try and make an image of that.
I like this a lot, Bonnie. The flowers coming up after the burn are very spectacular and certainly do suggest a ray of hope. I’ve done a fair amount of photographing areas after controlled burns and it usually seems to be the non-native weeds that pop up first (in fact the people doing them hope for a touch of rain afterwards that will make the weeds come up and they’ll hit them with a bit of emergent herbicide, wait a few days and then seed the area with natives).
The lone flower on the left didn’t bother me, but if you prefer them gone, I’d suggest a squarish crop. It also seems to have the effect of adding emphasis to the burned tree in the upper right.
Nature has this amazing way of healing and rejuvenating itself; if we leave it alone long enough; and this image illustrates that beautifully. These are lovely little flowers poking their heads out of that destructive burn and stand out nicely against the charred earth.I quite like the crop as suggested by @Dennis_Plank as well as that tree in the URC. Were you able to get any images of just that tree as I love it’s shape. Very nicely done.
Bonnie, this view tells a great story. I think that the open flower on the left is an mportant part of the visual balance. While the unopened flower doesn’t add much, it also doesn’t detract since it’s decently disguised. The snag in the upper right is an interesting element as are the bits of grass to the left and the living trees at the back.
Absolutely it does. This is really beautiful with the contrast of the pink flowers and burn area. The flower on the right stands out for me; it feels kind of defiant…
I’ll agree with everyone else. The “glimmer of hope” come through loud and clear. The flowers are set off nicely against the darker charred surroundings. Beautiful. May I ask, what are the flowers called? I have some, but they don’t always seem to bloom.
I actually lightened it quite a bit. It was rather dark and the pink of the flowers really stood out against the dark. For me, the dark, burnt background was a big part of the scene.
Oh, I like this thought!
We literally call them Pink Ladies (some even call them Naked Ladies ). They’re officially Amaryllis belladonna. Here in Shasta County (northern California) they can be rather pale pink, but over on the coast they are a really dark pink. Don’t know why they won’t bloom in your part of the country.
). They’re officially Amaryllis belladonna. Here in Shasta County (northern California) they can be rather pale pink, but over on the coast they are a really dark pink. Don’t know why they won’t bloom in your part of the country.