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• batalay (14244)
• [2008-04-24 22:06]

Hello Phil,

What a spectacular field of tulips! The simple composition is as effective as any I can imagine. It is a successfully scanned sixteen-year-old image. I recently found out that this flower, so inextricably linked with Holland, got there from Turkey in the 16-17th centuries. Turkey, in turn, got it from Iran, which in turn got it from India. (I don't know where the Hindus got it, but what beautiful flowers they make.)

Warm regards,

Bulent

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• FrankT (184)
• [2008-04-24 22:15]

Very good, I live in the Netherlands and I see this near my place every year (still love it) This must be some dutch guy who moved to the US.....

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• zeynepe (2704)
• [2008-04-24 22:27]

Dear Phil,
What a lovely and colorful composition :)
Splendid scene !!!
Best regards,
Zeynep

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• macondo (8678)
• [2008-04-24 23:22]

Hi Phil.
What a great shot, from the vast array of red flowers and yellow strip to the well placed buildings and the hazy snow capped peaks in the background, adding a great sense of depth. Very good 'classical' type of composition observing the rule of thirds. You did a great scanning job on this, getting beautiful rich colours. Nice, simple frame to top it off. Well done.
Regards,
Andrew

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• fritzi007 (203)
• [2008-04-24 23:25]
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• kpav (2936)
• [2008-04-24 23:25]

Hello Phil, superb shot, the colors are amazing and the composition excellent. Great depth too. Thanks for sharing.
Best regards,
Kostas.

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• gelor (3012)
• [2008-04-24 23:26]

Bonjour Phil,
Un très joli paysage aux couleurs extra ordinaires. Evidemment, il y a un peu de perte avec le scan mais l'ensemble reste très joli. Bravo.
Gérard

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• gildasjan (12587)
• [2008-04-24 23:37]

Bonjour Phil
Ce rouge tulipe rend cette composition très esthétique avec le ciel menaçant.Du beau travail.
Cordialement
Gildas

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• Floydian (24159)
• [2008-04-24 23:51]
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Hi Phil,
It's not only here in Holland were the flower fields stand in all their glory. Canada is also a unique location for making these kind of pictures. Here the red and yellow are working so nice together, while the house and the hazy mountains make a nice second detail to the image...wonderful, i like such pictures a lot.
Regards, Henk

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• dareco (8502)
• [2008-04-25 0:39]

HOLY MOLY!!! This is beautiful!!! Fabulous color!! A gorgeous scene. TFS

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• bracasha75 (11939)
• [2008-04-25 1:14]

Helo Phil
Wonderful Tulip field and is amaizing how manybeautiful flowers exist there,the house in BG is lovely to and lucky them to live in so one area
TFS
Cheers,Braca

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• gentedilivello (501)
• [2008-04-25 1:48]

Hi Phil,
what have I to say if not: "Wow! What colors!".
This is a wonderful picture, with the brilliant colors of flowers in contrast to the gray sky and the house stands nicely in the middle.
Congratulations.
TFS.
Gsbriele.

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• johnfreeman (1601)
• [2008-04-25 5:11]

Hi Phil,
The poor April weather seems to be pretty widespread, though fortunately it hasn’t been quite that cold here!
The beautiful strips of red and yellow colours contrast well with the slightly threatening grey of the sky and the barely glimpsed mountains in the distance. This is a very different landscape to the Dutch tulip fields we’re more accustomed to seeing.
I particularly like the way the foreground tulips seem to glow.
Very nice work and good scan too.
John

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• isabela_sor (32116)
• [2008-04-25 7:23]
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• feather (39037)
• [2008-04-25 7:50]

This is one of those images that really hit you in the eye. Those colours are stunning. Your scan quality is excellent too, with perfect sharpness. Well done
Kath

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• jimkilgallon (845)
• [2008-04-25 7:56]

Hi Phil

Stunning capture. You have managed to retain the detail in the red tulips which I think is important. I think a lot of people would have boosted the saturation in the reds to make them vibrant but your reds are spot on. I like the way the mountains in the BG distant and misty.
Regards
Jim

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• JorgeCK (2290)
• [2008-04-25 8:42]

Hi Phil,
Excellent spring scene. The colors are wonderful and the copmposition is superb!
Very good sharpness and depth of field.
Love the contrast of the red tulips and the yellow backgroup.
well done
regards, joRge

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• jonathan_hart (13914)
• [2008-04-25 9:36]

beautiful explosion of colours, well framed & composed, the big house is beautiful too and make a good subject behind these numerous flowers
regards
jo

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• cherryripe (13479)
• [2008-04-25 12:16]

Hi Phil
The colours and contrasts are so spectacular here. The buildings are nicely placed in the upper third and the grey background makes the tulips stand out even more so.
Regards
Nikki

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• fulvio52 (3847)
• [2008-04-25 12:58]

Excellent Show, Phil!
The colors are wonderful, of course, but what really makes the difference in here are those mountains shrouded in mist. Some background, let me tell ya! Wish I had a background like that here in Holland...
Have a great weekend, see ya soon.
Ciao,
Fulvio.

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• gneufeld (9231)
• [2008-04-25 19:16]

Hi Phil,
Wow, stunning color in this one - haven't seen anything quite like this yet this year, but maybe soon. Good composition and excellent clarity and sharpness. Fine work and TFS. Gerald

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• daddo (7705)
• [2008-04-26 2:18]

Hi Phil. An absolute feast for the eyes.A vibrant and appealing palette.The dark sky and fine lines of the distant mountains add great atmosphere and contrast to the brightness below. Regards. Klaudio.

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• Charo (15994)
• [2008-04-26 2:21]

Hola Phil,
Preciosas estas plantaciones de tulipanes con sus espectaculares colores. Excelente profundidad y gran contraste con ese cielo oscuro.
Buen fin de semana
Cordialmente
Charo

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• Wandering_Dan (2952)
• [2008-04-26 8:40]

Hi, Phil -

Very intense colors and nice composition. I'm finding it hard to think of the Pacific NW as tulip country, though. Good quality scan.

Best,
Dan

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• carper (51623)
• [2008-04-26 10:25]

a beauti of a photo phil,
marvelous colours good light and fine composition, for myself I would crop it into a carper format, but thats personal, very good photojob, have a nice weekend Phil.
gr., jaap

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• japiey (9295)
• [2008-04-27 9:52]

Hi Phil,

Amazing vision..
RED carpet...YELLOW carpet.. and a wondrous architecture in b/g.
Excellent image. SPECTACULAR !!
Well done.

jp

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• trewheeler (930)
• [2008-04-27 12:14]
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• sackbut (305)
• [2008-04-27 13:02]

Hi, what a vibrant image. Thanks for your points for my Haywain look alike. I am interested to hear what you think about the switch from velvia film to digital. I would expect that you would have seen a sharp difference in the colour strengths, from the deep richness of Velvia to the insipid colours of digital. Do you alter the saturation much afrewards?

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• capthaddock (27873)
• [2008-04-27 13:26]
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I wonder if I can afford that house, if I needed a job to pay for it, it would probably not be worth dealing with the daily traffic. I love the colourful fg of course, and the contrasty sky, I'm considering migrating out of the USA, hence the speculation about housing in BC.

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• Csilla (1525)
• [2008-04-27 21:18]

Hi Phil!
Beautiful composition with vibrant colors. You are very clever, you have a super scanned photo. I was surprised again, you took this photo long time ago.
Thanks, Csilla

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• ahmetgedikli (14955)
• [2008-04-28 4:26]

Hi Phil,
Wonderful scenery... Really beautiful composition, colours and good sharpness.
Thanks and best wishes.
Ahmet

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• crckt (6465)
• [2008-04-28 5:59]

Hi Phil,
Really wonderful colors! I love the red, so gorgeous! This is a scanned shot! WOW! You must have obtained a really good machine then. This looks amazing.
Regards,
Shaeri

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• denisn72 (3794)
• [2008-04-28 7:37]

Hello Phil
That's an incredible show! The house is surrounded by those million colourful flowers. The dark angry blue sky makes a good contrast with the fresh joyful flowers. Excellent colours and point of view.
Best regards
Denis!

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• Didi (27852)
• [2008-04-28 9:38]

Hi Phil
Very nice show indeed looks like in Holland.
Very nice coloured foreground with an interesting dramatic sky.
Cheers.

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• npecanhuk (3004)
• [2008-04-28 12:19]

Hello Phil!
How wonderful those colorful tulips...
And you have given us such a beautiful picture so we can enjoy it as a gift to our eyes and senses!
Perfect!
TFS
Neyvan Peçanhuk - Brazil

ps.: here you have the points, bye!

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• gunbud (16267)
• [2008-04-28 18:52]

Hi Phil,
Brilliant contrasting red, green yellow colors that are wonderfully complimented by the silver blue sky. Exceptional details and sharpness to this lovely spring composition.
Regards, Tom

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• Gerrit (23821)
• [2008-04-29 4:58]

Hi Phil,
Good horizontal layering in Fine perspective.
We're not the only one I see.
Regards, Gerrit

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• Atousa (1458)
• [2008-04-29 7:46]

Salam Phil,
An eye catching shot! the colours and compo are superb..lucky those who are living in that house :) !..tfs

All the best, Atousa

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• scobert (5321)
• [2008-04-29 19:44]

Hi Phil,
Your "Spring" weather is horrendous this year! Your "old" slide is just marvelous! Your analog to digital conversion is outstanding as well. I think that scanning our slides is the most underrated thing that we do on Trek Earth. Just because our images aren't brand new digital photos doesn't mean that they are not great photographs. By the way, I owned the PZ-1 before I swithced to nikon. It was an excellent camera. Beautiful work!
Stan

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• sagar (1783)
• [2008-04-30 1:04]

Hi Phil,
Really wonderful colors....The red and the yellow combines well.
Great shot.
Regards,
Sagarneel.

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• xavis (2778)
• [2008-04-30 6:29]
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Hola!
I like it! is as the spanish flag... ;-) the same colours.
Now serious...a realy nice picture, with this differents colours lays. Nice lights and colours and well composed, but may be I would prefer a larger view, with the house a little far from, to gives a greatter feeling of flower extension, with a little house on the background. But in any way a good job, nice to see all this flowers. We can imagine that this picture is took in Holland; only the hight snowy mountains on the background shows that we are not in Holland (The flatest country in the world, I think).

Hasta la vista,

javier

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• Tobias__Ortmann (1677)
• [2008-04-30 8:10]

Hi phil this shot is great the perfect contrast in that picture
and also the view over the field exzellent
maybe more depth of field would make this shot perfect but very well done as well
Toba

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• gelarsen (407)
• [2008-05-04 7:58]

Nice, beautiful colors with the red contrasting with the blue sky.
Gary

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• JPlumb (3111)
• [2008-05-04 23:39]

Hi Phil, very nice colour contrasts seen in this shot, between the tulips, and between the tulips, the house and sky. I have never seen a field of tulips before, this would be kind of neat. I like the low position you have to give the emphasis on the flowers themselves. Depth of field is good, with great definition throughout, and your colour saturation, from the slide is excellent. Very excellent PP.

Thanks, John

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• lilimih33 (9604)
• [2008-05-05 15:36]

Hello Phil!
Wow! Lots of tulips!
Great colours and very nice point of view!
Best regards!
Lili

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• mumek (15267)
• [2008-05-07 2:38]

Good morning Phil!
What a beautiful work! I am speechless.Fantastic play of the colours, excellent view athe carpet of the tulips! Nice background with the snowy mountains.Very impressive work.
best regards
ziggy

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• testmaniac (7434)
• [2008-05-09 23:04]

Hello my old friend Phil!
Very nice landscape with great colors and POV. Great place!

TFS and special regards from me and Bulgaria!

Philip(Phil)
:)

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• elitsa (367)
• [2008-05-10 9:01]

What a beautiful image!!! I like it very much and envy you that you visit this place:)
elitsa

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• worldcitizen (1677)
• [2008-05-29 16:43]

Hello Phil,
What an explosion of color!! I love the POV, with the tulips stretching out into the distance towards that lovely house. The composition is so perfectly balanced that it really catches the eye and keeps you looking for quite a while! :-)

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• brevbrev14 (19507)
• [2008-07-22 2:42]

Hi Phil, and this image is so well composed with this wonderful show of the nature..
a wonderful field!
good one!
ciao!
Valeria