PHOTOGRAPH INFO

This photo was taken over the weekend in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. We had two days that were warm enough for bare feet - now there's a chance of light snow in the forecast! Spring is full of suprises. :)

Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon 180mm f3.5L Macrolens at 180mm, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/200s, aperture f/6.3. Curves adjustments, color balancing.

Thank you for visiting Durham Township!

-- Kathleen

pretty amazing to think of an entire field of these little pretties! Fantastic focal control. :-)

Great composition and very good use of dof. Well done!

Outstanding photo!
I have to thank you for including the ID on that plant. I've been going nuts trying to look it up on the web after shooting one in Codorus State Park.

Extreme 3-D! A terrific "spring has sprung" action capture and a great illustration of the expression, "show them your heels."

We had a dusting of snow last week, but the weekend here hit 80 degrees. The Super-Soakers are all out of winter storage, and so are the Yellow Jackets.

Thanks for Spring's official opening shot, we are off and running!

Wow! Hyacinths this early in the year. Beautiful photograph. Playful. Light. I hope you and yours are well.

I subscribe to your RSS, thank you for the wonderful images you post I receive. You are a truly amazing photographer.

Best,
Thomas

Amazing dof! Brilliant framing.
I'm a big fan of your blog. Keep it up!
One question: did you do extra blur in PP? How do you get such shallow dof at f/6.3?

Love the DOF and colours - a very refreshing and enchanting image, lovely work Kathleen.

Hi
WoOoOoOoOW
Very beautiful. It is exhilarant.
I’m amatory photographer, but I like photography so much.

Best Wish

This is beautiful, Kathleen. Such evident joy mingled with unspoiled innocence. The freedom of youth and a dewy wet field of flowers. Very nice, one of the best images I've seen today.

Anupam: For this shot, I used the 180mm f/3.5L lens, which is a very long macro lens.

With a longer length lens like a 180mm, more distance is needed to frame the subject. At that distance, the lens compresses the subject matter, so there's a change in perspective. Also the narrow view means there's less backround, so whatever background there is becomes diffused.

So... no Photoshoppery. :)

really well done, kathleen. the top has a painter-like quality to it that really makes it.

was this at Alburtis Park, Lock Ridge?

We were there yesterday taking photos, need to post them on my blogger, but they are up on my flickr acct....

Gorgeous! Where exactly was this taken? I'd love to see this field in person.

OMG, was this taken at Lockridge Park near Macungie (which is in Lehigh County)? I found a very similar field of grape hyacinth there on Sunday evening while looking over the park for a potential photo shoot in a couple of weeks. My jaw just dropped when I saw this field, but I wasn't sure what kind of flowers they were until now. I love how you include the boy's running barefeet in this image. Excellent composition, Kathleen.

Beautiful Kathleen ! This one should go in your "Best Pictures" category. I don't know what it is you do, or if it's just the fact that Durham Township in PA has amazingly good light, but your images always blow me away. I have to think that you have mastered the art of curves adjustment and color balancing. Whatever it is, it works incredibly well.

A fun photo with gorgeous capture of grape hyacinths. What joy to see a field of them! Love the dof.

exquisite!
this just makes want to move to DT!
it seems to get prettier and prettier by the month!
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Ah this one is awesome, I love it.

Great color & DOF...the human element adds so much to this shot.

Wow! Such lovely colours. I like the composition a lot too.

Spring finally sprung.
Shoes are undone
Fun has begun.
To kick up one's heels
In blue and green fields,
Quite the scene yields.

Great photo!

Wow, what a beautiful image. I really love these type of fields and would love to visit such a place sometime.

Absolutely beautiful !

LOVE IT!!

Brilliant depth of field! Love the simplicity and color too.

Perfection.

Kathleen, sorry for the late comment. Just catching up on things. What more can be said than this is absolutely great. Spring personified! Joy!!

Really wonderful.

I've never seen an entire field of grape hyacinths before.

Nicely composed.

Yes, this is Lockridge Furnace, for everyone who asked. If you're going, go soon. The flowers don't last long.

The flowers alone are great, but the blurred feet running away are absolutely superb! It adds some serious human-factor to this otherwise nature photo.

Beautiful depth of field.

This blue and green palette is so sumptuous, makes me want to take
a bite out of thoses hyacinths as if there were berries.
That splash of deep blue denim just anchors it all in.
DoF is spot on.
Absolutely wonderful.

Gosh, Kathleen, I think I made 2 typos in last message,
"thoses" (!) and "there" instead of "they".
Hope I'm not being too much of a pain for asking you to fix them ?
Skipped my morning coffee. lol.
Have a nice day.

Soooo nice! You've taken the perfect picture of how spring feels. I love it. Yummy colors.

Interesting use of DoF and it really works. I also like the mixture of static and action. The post processing has really popped the colour too.

Brilliant!