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These are very lovely...

Very nice. What kind of a blossom is that?

Thanks; it's HP5+ in Xtol (no dilution); I took it with an old Kodak Ektar lens (from back when Ektar was a lens brand, not a film brand). I used a beauty dish and a reflector.

Last one of my freesias for the season, I promise :)

http://brianthedell.com/pictures/albums/Flowers/freesia2b.jpg

re: Larry H-L's picture I agree this one is especially lovely with all the detail; the tone is very elegant, too.

Ken's is, I think, my favorite of his so far.

http://brianthedell.com/pictures/albums/Flowers/iris2.jpg

I really like the sinuous stems. What flower is that?

@Tony Evans— Thanks :)

http://brianthedell.com/pictures/albums/Flowers/freesia2.jpg

I love the three tulip shot; I'm a bit jealous of it...

One of my friends suggested that this picture is better than the one I selected from the shoot.

I think he's right:

http://www.brianthedellphotography.com/img/s4/v62/p1227145900-2.jpg

http://www.brianthedellphotography.com/img/s1/v55/p631718535-4.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/may31_lilly2.jpg

That's very nice, the English rose close-up. I love the combination of texture and tone, as well as the stamens (?) popping upward.

Very nice lily, Sly; the first is my favorite.

The first one is the strongest "as-is" in my opinion. The last one has the best concept, but I'm not feeling your composition. I don't have much of an opinion one way or another about the middle one.

I agree, they're both wonderful but the Nikon one is my favorite. Then again, I prefer sharp to dreamy, and that's uncommon around here (or so I thought).

This is the last of the white tulips for me. Ken Lee has exhausted this flower already, anyway. :P :)

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mar5_tulip1.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mar4_tulip1.jpg
http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mar4_tulip2.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mar3_tulip1.jpg
http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mar3_tulip2.jpg...

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/pan4d.jpg
http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/pan2d.jpg

...and that's the rest of the best of my first nude...

I shot a whole bunch of nudes (16 frames total) of a model today. However, I ran out of developer half way through processing... so until I feel like mixing up more XTOL, I have eight. These three...

Very nice; I actually prefer it to the other orchid pictures.

Last ones from this calla lily, I promise :)

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/calla_profile.jpg
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http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/calla_tryptich_screen1.jpg

A Triptych

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/feb14_calla.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bells4.jpg
http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bells1.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/arti2_feb4.jpg

Last artichoke picture...

http://brianthedellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/arti_3_crop.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/flowers/2_1_12/calla_1.jpg
http://brianthedellphotography.com/flowers/2_1_12/calla_2.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/flowers/2_1_12/artichoke_1.jpg

http://brianthedell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/iris_bw2.jpg

Gee, I'd have thought I'd count myself among those "who like to argue." Aside from finding it a bit wordy, I actually appreciated the essay. :) I'm all for treating photography like the real and...

Like I said, he's a common troll. He's not interested in participating in a thoughtful, spirited community so much as he's interested in roiling up drama to entertain himself.

Am I trying to ban...

Really? Because, at least in this thread, he seems like a common troll. And hey, well trolled, well trolled indeed...

Also, if you make statements and aren't prepared to explain (if not defend)...

Excuse me? He trundled in, dropped an inflammatory statement that had superficial relevance to the thread and absolutely NO thought or compelling argument behind it. He has yet to come back to defend...

Gosh! All these horrible art snobs lurking about! I hope one doesn't come creeping out of a dark alley late at night, to clobber me with his peacock vocabulary! Articulate people are scary!

The...

The unexamined life is not worth living. I always thought art existed mostly to help me more deeply appreciate the world around me. Furthermore, if art said nothing, how could it possibly inspire and...

Mapplethorpe spent most of his career "discovering" his sexuality and doing drugs. The few commercial assignments he did were complete failures, at least commercially (though they were fascinating...

http://brianthedellphotography.com/lilly1.jpg

http://brianthedellphotography.com/lilly2.jpg