Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: dramatic

A friend of mine has a large piece of property where she and here husband have planted countless daffodils and irises. I got to visit one year and she asked me to take some pictures of some that she had cut for floral displays. These two made a dramatic disply against black!

How many times have you captured a subject that looked good at the time but when you looked at the picture later, you ended up passing it by because the background was too busy? Back in November 2013, I found just that situation! This beautiful mushroom was sitting in a spot with many bushes, leaves and sticks, grass and other things around that took all the attention away from it. Even as I was taking the picture, I knew what I'd do to save this image... textures to the rescue!! By replacing the entire background, I was able to show off the mushroom the way I'd hoped!

It rained a bit today, the skies dull and grey. But as the afternoon wore on, the sky began to clear and we started to see amazing cloud formations marching past. I kept my eye on them, and as the sun began to set, I was ready and waiting! I hope you'll click on this picture to get a larger view--panoramas really need to be seen large for best impact! :) Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. Wikipedia: Elbert Hubbard Explored on Flickr on February 19, 2013. Highest position: #417.

Here's a section of the amazing sunset sky as the sun sank below the hills. So beautiful. I'm glad I was there to capture it!