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This caught my attention as I was driving by going home and I had to turn around and get a few shots.
Watercolor & Ink Painting
I am a bit disappointed in this one.
I used an iridescent Daniel Smith color for shading and the camera picks it up blatantly!
In my painting you cannot see all that blue!!
I thought the painting was somewhat successful until I downloaded it to my HD.
Editing only made it worse, so I went back to the original, and so this is straight out of the camera.
I love Japanese Maple colors..and next time I wont use the iridescent.
A maple leaf I removed from one of my maple trees
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM prime lens
The famous Japanese Maple at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. Despite the pouring rain this morning, I shared the little tree with several other photographers. Two from Colorado and one from Pittsburg amongst them.
Japanese maple. Latin: acer palmatum Swedish: japansk lönn. Acer palmatum is a deciduous shrub or small tree reaching heights of 6–10 m, rarely 16 m, often growing as an understory plant in shady woodlands. Japanese Maple has been grown in temperate areas around the world since the 1800s, but had been cultivated in Japan for centuries. The first specimen of the tree reached England in 1820.
When Swedish doctor-botanist Carl Peter Thunberg traveled in Japan late in the eighteenth century, he secreted out drawings of a small tree that would eventually become synonymous with the high art of oriental gardens. He gave it the species name palmatum after the hand-like shape of its leaves. This would hardly surprise the Japanese who for centuries referred to their group of maples as kaede and momiji, references to the 'hands' of frogs and babies, respectively. Wikipedia article. Photo taken in The Gothenburg Botanical Garden.