Ad astra per aspera
here is my first (very amateur) entry, from one of two visits last week to the Hangzhou Botanical Gardens.
Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
they turn out to be "wintersweets" (Chimonanthus praecox), or 蝋梅 (là méi, literally "wax or glazed plum") in Mandarin.
unlike the other blossoms, these have a very noticeable and delightful fragrance. i had never known them before, they turn out to be fairly common. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
I'm guessing you posted this under the constructive criticism thread by accident ... but I think a little cropping helps with the impact of that.
Or you just have a nice feeling about the scene and take a picture of it to keep it in some sort of Proust's madeleine diairy !
In the first situation you already think about communicating the picture when you take it, in the second situation,it's more personal and when you show it to others, it's like giving them a bit of your inner feelings...!
None is superior to the other, they are just juxtaposed ! But Colman was right in trying to show how the same picture can tell different stories... :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
thanks for the tip about cropping. i am still just playing around with adjusting hue, saturation, contrast, etc. in iPhoto, but i had not even thought about cropping. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
