Thistles are magenta…
Skies are blue…
Over-saturation, that’s just what I do!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
About this image: digital photograph (Canon 300D) lightly modified in Adobe Photoshop
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Refrigerator Magnate 
Looks mighty fine from here….
It brings to all great cheer 🙂
Urk that’s bad
It’s really sad
And now my ditty is done
Phew, a sigh of relief from all and one.
My apologies but your post did inspire me. 🙂
Love the tropical feel of the image too.
Next time, no rhymes from this corner 🙂
Hahaha…
But your rhyme sounds much better than mine…
of which I fear readers will cringe, moan and whine!
Thank you so very much, P&K!
I always appreciate your kind comments no matter the format in which they are composed!
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Excellent composition, Robert.
Thank you, S.E…
I had enough time to play with a few different angles, etc. here…
that seemed to help me out, I think.
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Thislte. you know how to thistle….
… Just crank up your colors and glow.
Hahaha… I think these colors might glow-in-the dark, Laura!
My retinas! My retinas!
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Thistle very kind of you to say, Ms. B…
thank you!
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Just a thistle bit.
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What a cool photo. I like your sense. Have a good day.
Thank you very much! You are so kind to say that, as always, sir!
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I like the pictures you take,
And even like the poems you make,
So keep it up for goodness sake.
As long as I’ve showed-up here I’ve yet to find,
a comment from you sir,
that’s anything but kind!
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I’m short on time and also rhyme, so I’ll just say, what a fabulous photograph.
Hahaha… well, I’m always short on rhyme… and I always appreciate the time, because I know how that goes! Thanks so much, H.C!
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The warmth of the thistle, and the shadowy crispness of the background, is beautiful! Love the green of the lake!
Thank you so much, Ms. K!
The water here is incredible… relatively shallow water over sandbars that seem to extend forever – the blues and greens are just wild… and beyond them rich darker blues from the depths… the range of color is spectacular.
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I wish I were sitting next to that thistle right now. Lovely!
I thank you for that, Madame! Very much!
The more I think about this the more I wonder if I should have waited to post any image(s) featuring water… perhaps it was some hidden / Freudian desire for calmer waters…
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Oh, wow, SIG!! This is lovely. The flower looks like you could reach out and touch it and smell it 🙂
That is very kind of you, B.F! Thank you!
Just between you and me I’m a bit surprised I didn’t reach out just a bit too far and tip over the wall when I shot this!
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Well, SIG, thank goodness you didn’t!! But, I think it would have been worth it 🙂 You’re most dedicated.
Hahaha… well… I have been known to try some pretty silly stuff when I’ve got a camera in my hands…
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Great colors and composition. What a lovely place. Thanks for sharing this beauty. I may sit here awhile and pretend to be there.
Thank you very much, Patti!
I think I wanted to be reminded of warmer days when I posted this one… is it spring yet?!
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Well, I think this is just one of my favorites! Maybe it’s because we got several inches of snow from a Nor’easter yesterday (after all the indignities of Hurricane Sandy). I was thinking this morning that I’d love a trip to some sunny, warm place, and your photo looks like just what I had in mind!
That is a wonderful thing to hear, Ms. C… I thank you!
I was just telling a blogger (who is also from NYC) that it just dawned on me it might have been more sensitive to wait and post any images containing water for a while, but that I think I had some subconscious desire to see calmer / kinder / warmer waters after everything I’ve heard has been happening out east…
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Do Thistles Whistle?
Hahaha… not at me, anyway.
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Very colourful. Unusual Mr. SIG 😉
Indeed! Maybe I’ve turned over a colorful new leaf… or maybe not.
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Really like the way the thistles are coming in from the side. I wouldn’t’ve (Hmmm… That’s how I say it but is it acceptable to double hyphenate??? or should I have used Wouldn’t have???) thought of that. I woulda just plonked them in the centre.
Now I’m abbreviatorally confused. I think it’s actually an apostrophe. I think this “-” is a hyphen
R.O.F.L.M.A.O. (Love, the Grammar Nazi)
Yes ve haf ways of making you abbreviate correctly
Or else!
Many thanks, Tony! I don’t know… you are pretty darn creative with your work, sir!
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Awesome shot, SIG. Glad you are back in business 😉
Thank you very much, Red… it’s difficult for me to stay away for too long.
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That’s very nice. Love the colors. Looks like someplace tropical.
Why thank you, sir! It sure does, doesn’t it? The sandbars stretch out so far into the shallow waters that the colors are pretty spectacular! Not quite as warm as the tropics, but quit beautiful just the same!
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Awesome! Cool pic . . . love the saturation level.
Many thanks, Nancy! As you know I tend to get hungup on B/W, but the colors here are so much of what defines the place for me that I just couldn’t resist!
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Love the ocean line! With your modification, it appears much more beautiful! 😀
Thank you so much, Cristina! It’s such a beautiful place… it’s difficult to mess up (even for me)!
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This “over saturation” works for me. The bright colours are welcome on these grey days that have followed the over stimulation of the colour of the fall leaves.
That is wonderful to hear Ms. G! Thank you so vey much! I think you’ve just described my exact feelings when working on / posting this one! Exactly so!
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Love that aqua colour.
The colors here are just wild! I’m still surprised every time I visit!
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I love the color of this thistle…never seen one that color before. Excellent work as always, Sig!
Have a nice weekend! 🙂
Many thanks Deb! There was great color everywhere I looked… too good to pass up! Thanks yet again! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend as well!
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Sometimes on Instagram, I’ll post a picture that I’ll really consider art, and it’ll get two likes. And then I’ll post a picture of a flower, and people I haven’t heard from in years will like it, and it’ll piss me off. But I get it. Because I think most of your pieces are much more artful than this one, and yet I immediately wanted to hit the Like button when I saw this. We just like flowers.
It’s funny… if someone asked me what I’d like to shoot most I doubt flowers would ever come to mind… but, that being said, for whatever reason, I do seem to go back to them time and again.
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Nothing wrong with cranking up the volume 🙂 Beautifully simple composition – I just love thistles 🙂
Many thanks, Martin! It seemed to me that there was just so much happenin in my previous post… it was kind of nice to just step back a bit and go with a bit more simplicity this time.
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It must have been a tad difficult taking this shot…
I mean with all those young and extremely attractive
ladies wanting you for… Wake up SIG, it was just a
dream, and what a fangtastic photograph, those
colours are brilliant and you have captured those
flowers perfectly 🙂 Okay time for a tropical cocktail
and a few lucky ladies to massage your dreams
into reality 🙂 Wow I wouldn’t mind a bit of that too 🙂
Have a great
rest of weekend SIG 🙂
Androgoth
Hahaha… the dream nearly turned into a nightmare, Ando… being distraacted (as I so often am when a camera is involved) I nearly managed to tip right over the edge and into the waters below! I’m sure my equipment would never have been quite the same!
Many thanks, my friend! I hope this weekend finds you very well, sir!
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Lovely colour and composition,it’s so perfectly framed that I do hope you frame it.
Many thanks, Nigel! It’s a lovely spot… makes it difficult to get a bad shot there (even for me)!
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Well done. 🙂
This would work for either a vacation spot ad or allergy medication ad.
Tag line; “You know how to thistle don’t you,…?”
Hahaha… I like that!
Oh no… here comes that long list of medical ‘disclaimers’!
‘You should not use if…’
‘If you experience any of the following please discontinue immediately and tell your doctor right away…’
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Photography and poetry? Zow’ee! What a wonderful saturation of talent.
Hahaha… the sad part is this is the best my poetry gets… and I don’t even want to mention how long it took me to come up with this, even. Writers… I seriously don’t know how folks like you do it!
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Stunning image! I love it.
Thank you very, very much Ms. F!
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Hey old friend!! Sorry for the drop off the face of the planet — between my ear being whacked by the recent weather, wood stacking, the girls’ school and ports schedules, life, etc. I’ve been offline for weeks! Hope you are very well! Thanks for the gorgeous photo. Just what I needed on this very cold morning. 🙂
Dishy! I’m so happy to hear from you! No need to apologize… I’m just thrilled to hear you are doing okay! Not that I’m paranoid, or anything… I was just kind of concerned after the storm(s) and such (I hadn’t heard quite how far north everything extended, but I was sure it wasn’t good, regardless)!
I certainly can’t complain – especially after all your family has been through – I just hope things can calm down for you a bit now so you can have a moment or two to recover from it all!!!
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This is beautifule Robert.
Many thanks, my friend! It’s a beautiful spot… would have been hard to mess this one up too badly!
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Say dune thistle three times very fast!! Lol! Nice shot inky!
I’m not sure I can say it once, Mr. B!
(I’m fairly certain ‘Porky Pig’ was modeled after me)!
Why thank you, sir! I appreciate that very much!
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Wow, SIG. Just wow!
This is lovely.
That is very kind of you to say, Mr. H!
Many thanks, sir!
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Beautiful colors and excellent composition!
Thank you so much, sir!
It was such a beautiful place… it would have been difficult to mess it up too badly (although I certainly have)!
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So cheerful and lovely!
Eh. That’s all Photoshopped in.
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