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Postby flipfrog on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:18 pm

from my road trip to northern Washington state today for the annual tulip festival in the skagit valley...


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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:20 pm

Dee - all superb fully saturated pics - my favourite would be the low angle shot of the tulips - beautiful shots :D
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Postby flipfrog on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:24 pm

thanks Chris.... :)
here are a few others:

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Postby leek on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:41 pm

Wow flipfrog...

Are you sure that isn't Holland? Those tulips and windmills look very familiar...

Lovely shots...
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Postby dooda on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:47 pm

Great shots Dee, Your style is so succintly yours. I really like that.
These pics could almost pass for paintings on my monitor. Great work.
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Postby Soulboy on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:47 pm

Wow! They're lovely, beautifully rich colours. And those tulips look fantastic, I actually feel as though I'm lying down next to them. :)
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Postby stormygirl on Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:53 pm

These are fantastic! Tulips are my fav flowers, and they just look so warm and rich in their colours! Well done. They are amazing.
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Postby kipper on Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:45 pm

Master, your Kung Fu is strong!

As somebody else said, the low level tulip shot is wonderful. Love also the texture of the bladed grass and the windmill.
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Postby marcus on Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:45 pm

As my son would say: you are da bomb! These are sensational. I too have to give it to the tulips shot. Brilliant stuff!
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Postby BBJ on Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:49 pm

Bloody beuatifulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Well done Dee.
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Postby dhess on Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:16 pm

Awesome! Love number four.
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:38 am

Dee
I really enjoy your work and think you've found a distinctly personal style. You're images always scream off the screen with lovely saturated colours that mangage to be interesting without being extreme. My favourites from this bunch are the first shot & the windmill shot from the first post and the flower in the second post. Strange thing is you've managed to even make a white flower have that oversaturated feel. Like having a 100,000 watt light on the subject!

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Postby flipfrog on Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:00 am

thanks guys !

when i saw that the tulip festival was on, and the sun came out, i was all over it....

stay tuned for my MEXICO spring break pix....to follow soon.
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Postby flipfrog on Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:47 am

one more...

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Postby KerryPierce on Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:23 am

Interesting and Very colorful shots, Dee. The windmill against the sky shot is very cool, IMO. :D
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Postby Glen on Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:31 am

Dee great shots, glad it isn't my turn for pic of the week :wink: The low level and the rows of tulips are excellent
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Postby dooda on Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:04 pm

I agree Glen there were some good ones this week. I thought I had a good shot with my nocturnal shack, then dee posted his nice ones, and I hadn't even seen Darb's shot on sand dunes, amongst others! A good competitive week, it's just too bad that I didn't win :cry: :cry:
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Postby the foto fanatic on Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:59 pm

Nice images Dee. I think the composition is excellent.
There is just a tad too much saturation in some of the reds IMHO - tends to make the tulips look plastic (just a personal view, I realise others may not agree) .
But, that doesn't prevent these pix from being fantastic to view. :D
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:37 pm

Dee - your compositional skills matched with the superlative colour make for award winning pics - the youth of Australia also have another saying ”Fully Sick” meaning wow, great, sensational et al :D
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Postby Neeper on Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:30 pm

You never stop do ya? Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing!
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Postby haz on Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:44 pm

Beautiful shots Dee. I truly enjoyed them :)
Are you selling them as stock photographs? If not, I think you should....
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Postby flipfrog on Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:57 am

wow
thanks for all the nice comments
and also for the advise...


the tulip festival was a neat place to go not only for the pics, but to see all the photographers everywhere..i saw so much nice gear... telephotos, macros and tripods comin outta peeps ying yangs....

dooda: you need to try and make a trip down..its all of april and only 1 hour from vancouver (if no wait at the border)
http://www.tulipfestival.org

this was made from as high above my head as i could hold my d70 on a monopod while standing on a truck bed:
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