Witch riding a dragon, her white hair flowing out of her beret.

[alfredo]

I used the in camera monochrome with either the yellow or green filter.

[Solly Mack]

1. I see it.

[alfredo]

6. It was completely lost in color.

[Solly Mack]

9. I can see that too. :)

It's a great shot.

I like it lots.

[alfredo]

30. Thanks. I've been looking for photos in some leaf clutter the

past few days.Golden hour light, and a macro are my weapons of choice.

[Solly Mack]

32. Sounds nice. Hurry and getitdone. :)

[alfredo]

33. I got it done, now I am stiff and sore from creeping around on all fours.

[Solly Mack]

34. Those are great!

Sorry about your stiff and sore body.

[alfredo]

35. A couple aspirin took care of the pain.

If you don't take aspirin very much, it is miraculous.

[Solly Mack]

36. It really is. At an apothecary museum in Heidelberg

they have a display for Bayer and its beginnings. They called it the wonder drug (aspirin) way, way back long ago.

Some headaches I get respond best to plain aspirin.

[alfredo]

37. It's either Aspirin or Imitrex for me. I get 3 to 4 day migraines. They laugh at aspirin.

[Solly Mack]

38. I'm so sorry! I know those suck.

[alfredo]

39. The medicine works, so suffering is brief.

[Helen Borg]

29. Do you have a link to the one in color?

[alfredo]

31. I haven't posted it. It is still in its raw unedited form.

[flamin lib]

2. Can't say enough about your B&W vision.

And my wife says so too!

[alfredo]

4. thank you. I try

[ManiacJoe]

3. Cool shot; great title!

[alfredo]

5. It's amazing how your brain tries to make sense of what it sees.

[DrDan]

7. Alfredo - do you use NIK? or what SW do you use for your BW processing

do you have some focus in your post-processing? For example, I seem to remember back in the old days (film) the rule of thumb was to print for the blacks and let whites/grays land wherever.

I find B&W in a digital world quite frustrating.

[alfredo]

8. I use iPhoto and GIMP. iPhoto is for cropping, straightening, a adjusting some levels.

In GIMP I do the fine tuning of levels, resizing, and sharpening. iPhoto has a good basic RAW converter.

Quite often I do a bit of color balance to add a light tone to the image to take the edge off the whites.

[DrDan]

11. thanks - I downloaded GIMP once, but have not really used it much

I use ELEMENTS 11 and NIK now.

I will take a look at those two.

[alfredo]

12. Gimp has some good plugins. I've been using it off and on since version 1.02. I laid off

during my Photoshop years. When OSX 10.6, or was it 10.5 came out, PS was broken, so I went back to GIMP.

There's a learning curve just like other editing software.

[rock]

10. Did you smoke it afterwards?

Er, I mean, what sort of plant was it?

[alfredo]

13. It's a dying Peony flower.

[rock]

14. Very nice interpretation

Extremely original. Thanks.

[alfredo]

16. Thanks, it's all those illegal things I consumed in the 60's. I take no credit.

[glinda]

20. coooooool!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. CooL!

[nikto]

17. Here's an angry, bottom-feeding fish...

But if you smoke it, you'll dream of
a witch riding a dragon, with her white hair flowing out of her beret.

[alfredo]

18. I think you might have hit on something.

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I think I learned what I needed to learn from altered states. Those blissed out afternoons in the woods did teach me to continue to see the world as a child.

Keep looking at the underside of the leaf, even though it hurts to get back up. Your inner child appreciates the effort.

[nikto]

24. Simple message, but true

[toby jo]

19. great eye, alfredo ~ love this one

[alfredo]

23. TKS. I've been drawn to dying flowers for a long time. I think it was the

dying flower in the opening credits of "Six Feet Under" that inspired me to photograph them. At first I tried color, then enhancing the colors to emphasize the decay. Now I find that black and white creates a whole new way to see dying flowers.

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[Helen Borg]

25. Six feet under....

One of the best TV series EVER!

[alfredo]

26. I agree.

[Helen Borg]

21. Giants watching her on the right!

[alfredo]

22. And are sad because they are too big to ride dragons.

[FailureToCommunicate]

27. My inner child claps loudly for this!!!

[alfredo]

28. Thanks. Grab your camera, and your inner child and take some photos.