About to Blossom

Taken in Junko & Bill's backyard, site of both the beautiful cherry tree in bloom and this Japanese maple that is about to burst open. Background added using modified textures to replace a rather dull gray sky.
Wishing everyone a good weekend ahead. We sadly will not be going to the Blackhawks playoff game on Saturday night because they lost 4 in a row and are out of play now.

[Junko Y]

I should look more carefully at my backyard! This is beautifully captured, and even more beautiful with the layer you gave the background.

[Kas]

The detail is this is amazing. I love the textures you've displayed. Did you need to use a tripod for this?

[Issi Bannerman]

It does look bursting with Spring. Nicely captured.

[Pam Knowler]

Beautiful details and textures in the bud! Lovely processing shows it at it's best! Junko's garden is giving you both some beautiful subject matter! Fav!

[Yao RL]

The magic background is quite in harmony with the flowers.

[Margo]

lovely

[Sam]

Precious :)

[Lynda McG]

Love this! Fav

[tony gig]

Wonderful capture.

[Dione Giorgio]

A great job with the editing, Taffy. Fantastic capture, too.

[Peter Dulis]

Love it ... where's all your Iceland Pics?

[Babs]

Gorgeous macro, a sure sign that Spring is on the way.

[Casablanca]

It looks furry, I want to reach out and stroke it!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Lovely colors and details in this, Taffy.

[Richard Hickey]

Incredible macro.

[Milanie]

Wonderful close-up - love the colors and textures and your nice dof.

[Tom]

Wonderful close up and use of textures

[gloria jones]

Wonderful macro with great details and composition

[Taffy]

@pdulis More will come (from Iceland) once I get all my photo reorganizing sorted out. Computer crash came at such a bad time! Thanks for asking!

[Molly]

Great focus, and beautiful detail in this bud.

[Catherine P]

So beautiful

[bkb in the city]

Very nice shot

[carol white]

Nicely captured and focused

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful

[Rosie Kind]

Gorgeous textures in this

[Tunia McClure]

I really like the background.

[Rookynook]

Love the DOF giving super background. Lovely bud.

[Taffy]

@tunia Thanks!! I was trying to figure out a way to cover the drab gray without turning it into something that would not look fairly natural.

[Veena Gupta]

Beautifully done. Very pretty.

[Ukandie!]

Wonderful texture!

[Susan]

Wonderful macro!

[Lisa Poland]

Fabulous macro!

[Marnie]

That background is perfect for showing off that beautiful bud with all its textures and tones.

[Jennifer]

Lovely shot.

[Islandgirl]

Very pretty love the textured background!

[Jane Pittenger]

I love the colors, narrow dof, detail, and texture job

[Sally Ings]

Great details and shallow dof

[Elizabeth]

The background you added really compliments the image! I would love to learn to adjust the backgrounds- are the textures in Photoshop or LR?

[Chris Johnson]

Texture overload!!! Beautiful capture of this plant!

[Taffy]

@redy4et Thank you! I use a program called Topaz Textures to add textures to my shots. It operates as a plug-in within LR. I think you can do textures in PS in a way that allows you to go back in and edit. It's more intuitive to me, in Topaz Textures, but once you save, it's gone.

[Gayle]

Love this macro image! Excellent focus for the wonderful textures. :-)

[Darlene]

Great shot with so much detail.

[Helen Jane]

The red and white detail on the bud is delightful. Very clever the way you created that backround. It looks very natural.