Le jardin du sommeil d'amour

[Airy]

For Akira, who knows where the title comes from. For all Df huggers and especially the one guy hugging several copies. For all others in this fine community.

All shot with the Voigtländer 40/2, plus close-up lens for the two last ones. More PP than usual, but all in Lightroom.
Shooting ballerinas in flight is more fun, but "faute de grives, on mange des merles" (I do not remember the English equivalent, but I heard one recently that sounds more trashy)

[Fons Baerken]

..lovely, but then 'beggars cant be choosers'.

[Airy]

..lovely, but then 'beggars cant be choosers'.

Not the phrase I had in mind, but interesting all the same.

[Tristin]

Lovely images, I like the dark PP.

[Akira]

 

I enjoy all, but the first image looks the most enjoyable, not really because it carries the "jardin" look, but because it contains more different sounds like Turangalila does.

The machine translation tells "half a loaf is better than no bread".  In Japanese, it would be "Chi-Soku" (meaning, "knowing of sufficiency"), which is also the most popular design concept of the artificial well seen in a zen-garden like this:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D%E5%AE%89%E5%AF%BA#/media/File:Ryoanjitemple.JPG

[Airy]

I enjoy all, but the first image looks the most enjoyable, not really because it carries the "jardin" look, but because I hear more different sounds from it like from Turangalila.

Messiaen in reverse; he would see colors when listening to sounds...

[Airy]

Lovely images, I like the dark PP.

Unfortunately, I'll never learn patience. I feel compelled to have all shots from one sequence, same day. Champagne makers know how to assemble wines from different vintages.

[Akira]

Sorry, I just edited my original post (but the meaning remains the same).

Messiaen in reverse; he would see colors when listening to sounds...

Absolutely.

[elsid]

Very nice Airy. I find the first one very "atmospheric".

[Airy]

Very nice Airy. I find the first one very "atmospheric".

Lots of chemistry. It was a daytime shot after all... but "Spaß muss sein".

[Frank Fremerey]

There is a lot of mystery in the first shot. That is why I love it. It is a bit darkish, yet warm and has this ONE red accent. Totally love it!

[Airy]

Thanks Frank. The red magnolia fruit was not inflated (well, using a 40mm in a distance and not being able to get closer), so it "benefitted" from a strong saturation and luminance push, using the pencil tool.

The sky also got darkened and the blues saturated, to the extent possible before haloing becomes too apparent. Several gradual filters were put at a use too.

[armando_m]

All are very nice , 1st is certainly the winner

Very nice and effective processing