Apricot blooms and spent lotus, Arashiyama...

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...on the western fringe of Kyoto. Photographed at the end of the day - Nikon Ais 35/1.4 @ f1.4.

[stenrasmussen]

Lovely...delicate and perky. I like this!

[elsa hoffmann]

Beautiful blossoms
cant help but think a little more light on the blossoms wouldnt have hurt

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Thanks for commenting, Sten and Elsa.

Elsa - thanks for your suggestion. The light was quite poor, but I reprocessed using the Huelight (high) camera profile in CC2015 (instead of PN), and managed to get a bit more light on the blossoms (and cooled it down a bit). This came at the cost of more obvious halos over the background mountains.

[elsa hoffmann]

So true what you say - often processing is at the cost of something.

[Akira]

Nice atmospheric shot, Mike!

I personally like the original edit in which the darkish-blueish light of the end of a day is well captured.

[s.smith]

Terrific shots well composed. Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks for commenting, Akira and s.smith.

Akira - I think that I prefer version 1, but with the reds of the spent lotus cooled a fraction. What do you think?

Mike.

[Akira]

Thanks for commenting, Akira and s.smith.

Akira - I think that I prefer version 1, but with the reds of the spent lotus cooled a fraction. What do you think?

Mike.

Well, I think that would depend on the time of the day you took the image.  The slightly cooler tone could be more appropriate for the later hours.  I might even want to darken the exposure a wee bit.