Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

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Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

Postby stubbsy on Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:00 pm

On the long weekend just gone I visited Mittagong and Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands. It's a beautiful part of the country and sprintgtime flowers were in abundance including lots of tulips which gave the chance to dust off my 105 VR macro for some use. It was extremely windy and I had no tripod which made life a little challenging. Here are some of the results.

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Re: Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

Postby zafra52 on Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:25 pm

The first one looks stretched on my monitor, but
I really like 2 and 3.
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Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

Postby Geoff M on Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:07 pm

2 & 3 for me too. Wonderful colour saturation, tack sharp and showing the intricacies of the blooms. Great stuff.
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Re: Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

Postby aim54x on Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:08 am

I'm loving #1. It seems like you have lost a bit of detail in the last though. Great seeing images from you Peter
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Re: Southern Higlands and it's tulip time

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:13 am

Hi Peter,
I like #2 and #3 is almost there for me too - I'm not exactly sure why #3 doesn't ring my bell - the red/colour is great however - very nicely controlled.
#1 looks a touch shaky to me (slight touch of motion blur)?
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