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Photograph of the Day at Photography Cafe is always a lovely surprise, and this image of a Camellia, was even more of one.  This was a repost after some suggestions from another member to improve the conversion from colour to B&W.  Taken at Haldon Grange near Exeter, I loved the shape and softness of the Petals,  but in colour it just seemed like another “flower” shot,  with a soft conversion to a split toned B&W I felt really improved it.

Here is what the reviewer “Big Al” had to say

I’m claiming some POTD glory this morning with my editing suggestions, but Jane created the general concept. The brown monochrome tone carries an air of decay about it and leads us to think of the camellia (with its naturally ragged petals) as dying. So that is likely to be your first instinctive impression. Then the thoughts change as you take in the delicate folds that are captured by the retention of detail in the whites. The nicely off-centre flower is well counterbalanced with the subtle leaf.

A composite image of Doors from our recent trip took second place in the “Doors” Competition at Photography-Cafe.  It was an interesting competition and as often happens, I was completely wrong about the positions of my entries.  The winner was a really colourful shot of beach house doors, by “RockArea” who is a fellow T189 Graduate.

I have just sent for printing my favourite images of 2009 in book form.

You can see the result below.

The Tunisian Adventure Book, is now viewable with the new Blurb viewer and available for sale, from them as well, just follow the link.