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A couple of poppy seed heads that are rotting away nicely in my garden with all the rain that we have been getting. Not a sight I've seen before - usually they just dry up over the summer and autumn - but what wonderful decay 
I've used a layer from a third seed head - looking from above.
This was rather a heavy looking image in colour, so I copied it and converted it to b/w and then used that as a masked layer over the coloured version and brought back just a tad of the colour in the six pictures, and more in the pattern from the layer.
I'm sure I will work another image or two with some of the shots I took.
The whole process took me just two hours. Some of you may ask why spend that time when I had two perfectly good shots in the first place?
I suppose for me photography is a tool to create something with - I'm not using pencil or paint but I am making something unique from what I see, and I'm developing my ideas as I go along. Its also wonderful to see beauty in the ordinary and quite simple things around me and be able to share what I see.
I asked a question in the Forum yesterday about Nathan - the topic has been "locked before it turns sour" It was encouraging to see how many members added their views during the day, and it was somewhat reassuring to find that he was upset rather than critically ill, which we were all naturally concerned about. I'm dedicating this to him in appreciation of what he gave to the site in terms of his photos, comments, thoughts and humour, and what he gave to many of us in terms of encouragement in spite of his ongoing physical and mental difficulties. I hope in time he is able to return to the site
Thanks for looking
Helen
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | For Nathan [NDODS] |
| Username: | 
helenlinda |
| Uploaded: | 27 Sep 2012 - 9:14 AM |
| Tags: | Digital art, Digitally manipulated, Flowers & plants |
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Comments
The delicacy of the background layer brings the montage together beautifully, like this a lot.
Moira
Agree with Moira with the background, nice.
Dave
Lovely image, exceptionally well done, i like this a lot
Hugh
Who would have thought that old poppy seed heads could be made to look so beautiful ~ only your creative mind Helen! Very well done.
Albert
PS It is really sad about Nathan deciding to leave he was inspirational.
A great fitting tribute to Nathan Helen, your artistic bent is showing through on this excellent photographic/processing capture, I still do not know why Eric left, but hope he will return one day, time is a great healer.
Regards
Trev.
got quite a few of these to.
you have made a great image with them
A special dedication to a special person who I hope gets to see this!
Carol
Excellent piece of work, Helen, and a fine dedication to Nathan. I did look again earlier on the Forum, but found no further info, but good to hear from you that he's reasonably OK. I shall miss his work on here, especially his recent uploads.
Trev
Good work takes time to excell your time was well spent love the processing well framed and presented, We all are concerned for Nathan and you summed it up so nicely, well done you Helen a lovely dedication to our friend Nathan.
John
Many thanks for your comments and in particular many thanks to John for his User Award
Helen, first let me say that I really like this image. I certainly understand why you put so much time into it. It was well worth your effort.
I'd also like to add that Nathan has been one of my favorite members for a while now. I am always impressed by his well thought out comments.
I know he has been very helpful to many of us. I'm glad he is being recognized here.
-=\Walter
Thanks Walter, Gary, Christine and Joan for your comments and many thanks Walter for your User Award
How kind of you to dedicate this to Nathan, Helen, my thoughts are with him.
Thank you Helen, I have just come across this piece, and whilst I sit and admire your wonderful work my eyes are filling with tears as I read you're caring and thoughtful words, and furthermore the words of so many others.
Thank you so very much
Highest Regards Nathan 
I'm so glad that you have found it Nathan, but more than that I am glad that you are back and are OK - we were concerned, to put it mildly
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