A flower at the Xochimilco Ecological Park.

Una Flor de Xochimilco

Posted by Luis A. De Jesus R. (Mexico City, Mexico) on 9 July 2008 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

This was taken at an ecological reserve that I frequent with my family. I live near this park; I get very little opportunity to travel outside the city because of my diurnal duties, so this little oasis is sometimes as close as I get to divorcing my mind from the burden of urban living.

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Comments (12)

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

The DOF works really well in this shot.

9 Jul 2008 6:29am

Jean-Benoît Maréchal from Dinant, Belgium

The colours are so beautiful. Nice macro. No exif ?

9 Jul 2008 10:17am

@Jean-Benoît Maréchal: Thanks! For some reason, the EXIF gets lost in the conversion from TIFF to Jpeg. I don't know why and I would like to get a better idea of how to prevent this. My feeling is that it may be happening from the moment I convert from RAW. Any suggestions?

I can tell you that I used a Nikon D50 with a 50mm lens at 1.8/f, a #1 + 2 closeup filter with an ND4 on top of these. The image was processed in RAW in LightRoom.

willow from Chelsea, United States

Beautiful!

9 Jul 2008 11:46am

Thomas Griffioen from Panama

Yes indeed, just beautiful!

9 Jul 2008 5:37pm

danthro from Suburbia, United States

gorgeous flower shot! i love it.

9 Jul 2008 7:00pm

Alessandro from Calci (PI), Italy

Incredible, and I am rarely impressed by flower macros.

9 Jul 2008 10:04pm

gbe from kansas city, United States

yes, i agree with the rest. well done.

9 Jul 2008 11:14pm

Nataly from Santa Monica, United States

Beautiful colors! And the clarity of the shot is superb!

10 Jul 2008 3:40am

Jean-Benoît Maréchal from Dinant, Belgium

No suggestions sorry... ;-) I don't have this problem of Exif since I use a Nikon program...

10 Jul 2008 9:08am

onewayphoto / Mark from London, United Kingdom

Lovely colours and nice tight composition

14 Jul 2008 12:51pm

Riccardo from - Lyon - Isola Liri - The world -, France

DOF incredible! Luis, i add your blog to my blog watch. I like your work. Riccardo.

24 Jul 2008 3:43pm

Vert Pomme from France

Superbes gazanias. Vivement l'été.

7 Mar 2009 8:17pm

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