Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Tethered Butterfly

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.

~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

For Kim's Texture Tuesday this week, the prompt is "soft". I love the soft feel of this first photo I took a few days ago of our newly planted dogwood tree (planted last year). It's only about five feet tall at this point. I used Kim's "shine" texture at Soft Light/33%. I also put it into Radlab and used the Maple filter at 50%. There have been so many gorgeous photo opportunities on my street this past week, so I'm adding a couple more captures of spring in Virginia.

butterfly flower

pink branch

spring dogwood

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13 comments:

  1. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. And I love how your eye saw a tethered butterfly in that first shot...brilliant!

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  2. What gorgeous Shots. It does look like a butterfly. A Beautiful butterfly..

    Hugs, Linda

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  3. Wow, your photos are great. Its spring time. The first photo looks like a butterfly.

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  4. Beautiful images. The 'flying' first shot is especially magical. :)

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  5. The edit on these photographs is wonderful; so soft and delicate. Such beauty this spring...

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  6. that's the second dogwood photo i've seen today. so pretty. and you are right... it really looks like a perched butterfly!

    i love that third photo... the many layers and colors... wonderful composition!

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  7. They're all gorgeous Sherrie but I especially love that second one, really beautiful :)

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  8. Oh Sherrie, your spring photographs make me smile out loud. How very very lovely! Beautiful textures, too.

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  9. These are all beautiful! The first one does look like a butterfly.

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  10. LOVE these, and the name "tethered butterfly" is a perfect description.

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  11. Sherri, your images are gorgeous, especially the first one. I love the quote.

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  12. Hi Sherri! I love this image of the dogwood blossom – it really does resemble wings. They are the sweetest trees – we have one which was in bloom when we first looked on our property and it was so charming I'm sure it helped us decide to buy the house.

    Very much enjoyed seeing your scenes of spring in Virginia! And thank you for your recent comments – very much appreciated.

    Wishing you a joyful weekend. – g

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