>At the weekend I was inspired by the wonderful autumn colours and wanted >to do something about it. Last year I roamed Stowe House gardens in Bucks >and did your usual landscapes of trees dripping with golden cover. This >year I collected a couple of dozen leaves and selected 5 for >photographing. I put each one in a glass sandwich with a sheet of white >paper behind and backlit with a 650w Pulsar, shot using a macro. Later I >arranged the 5 into a pattern and lost the background entirely so the >leaves are sitting in white space. Printed large, with one big leaf in >the middle surrounded by 4 others in various states of decay and >associated colour, printed large - I was pleased at how I have managed >after all this time to get the colour right. I can't fault it. > >Just proofreading all that, why don't I just post the jpeg! Late now but >will sort it soon.
Sorted: http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/mods/spare.html In the print, the middle leaf is life-size and 8 inches across. Quote from Larry Niven's 'Ringworld': Speaker-to-animals (a Kzinti warrior: big, cat-like) pouring scorn on Nessus (a Pierson's Puppeteer: a peaceful intelligent alien, a herbivore): "What intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf ?" Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
