Giant Hyacinths Maybe or Pretty Purple Flowers

Taken in Central Park on the warm sunny day of our walk. Then, processed once home using a new (to me) set of textures that are oil painting strokes. I kind of liked the way this came out -- favorite color.

[bkb in the city]

Beautiful

[Issi Bannerman]

How lovely! Super processing!

[Sylvia Binch]

Lovely image. I really like the texture you used.

[Helen Sanderson]

they look like Hyacinths to me....lovely soft treatment of them.

[Marnie]

Stunning floral image, it does look just like an oil painting.

[Diana]

A stunning image and great use of texture, fav!

[haskar]

Lovely flowers and great background.

[Darlene]

This turned out great. Love the colors and detail too.

[Pam Knowler]

Beautiful colours! I love this texture making the image look like a painting! Is this Topaz? I can see this framed and on a wall in my house! Fav!

[Dianne Franckeiss]

Fabulous - the brush strokes blend beautifully with the flowers

[Margo]

Wow Very pretty

[Rob Z]

Truly lovely - the paint strokes are so good at blending it all together.

[FBailey]

Lovely texturing. Think they have to be hyacinths, love their perfume, positively heady

[sally agnew]

A beautiful image :)

[Pea]

Beautiful painterly image

[Denise Wood]

Beautiful :)

[Joan Robillard]

Hyacinths - yes

[Peter Dulis]

lovely

[Inga Johansson]

Love the way you edited with the brush strokes.

[Mave]

Love hyacinths

[Myrna O'Hara]

Just beautiful. I can smell them all the way here. Central Park is far ahead of our spring here on the Cape. I like that processing, might have to have a go at it myself.

[Casablanca]

Very paintingy........I don't think that's a real word!! I love hyacinth. Such an intoxicating scent and so many flowers per head.

[Harry J Benson]

nice colour and a good choice in the processing

[Catherine P]

Lovely colours and focus

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful colors and I really like the processing.

[Tom]

Great deep rich color of the hyacinths and interesting brush stroke processing

[Dione Giorgio]

Fabulous shot and processing. They used to be my favourite flowers.

[Debbie]

very nice. I do love playing with textures.

[Joyce]

Look like hyacinths but I'm no expert! I really like you textures they are very effective without dominating the picture. Fav

[Beryl Lloyd]

An instant fav - love the blue hyacinth and the painterly effects of your edit !

[Helen Jane]

I really like the way that the texture has softened the hyacinths, but they still look in good focus. A lovely result from your editing.

[Margaret Brown]

Beautiful, fav

[HappySnap]

Very arty. Wonderful colour.

[tony gig]

Lovely soft capture...fav

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Yes, Hyacinths- they come in pink and white too. I like the painterly effect as well.

[Kathie]

Lovely shot. It surprises me how warm NY is compared to TO.

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome picture.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Lovely shot

[Islandgirl]

Very painterly like.................I love it and this my favourite colour!

[Jane Pittenger]

Dreamy edit and I LOve hyacinths

[Walks @ 7]

Magnificent. Fav.

[Junko Y]

Such interesting strokes and textures to give a new look to a lovely photo of flowers.

[RosanneS]

Love the texture. Just learning about using textures and the painterly effect. Your photography is just beautiful.

[Leon Buijs]

Beautiful capture and processing.

[Suzanne]

It came out beautifully

[Lou Ann]

Lovely processing, they are beautiful flowers!

[Lisa Pouncy]

Love it. Just love those brush strokes xx

[Krista Marson]

what a fantastic post processing technique, love it!

[mikeharris]

Beautifully done.

[M. Brutus]

Nice shot and processing. But such strong processing lways makes me wonder what the original photo make have looked like.

[CC Folk]

Like a painting! Fav.