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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 22:29

Dutch tulips – color lunacy

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I have never thought I would be photographing flowers as many ”wildlife” photographers do in these days. It is quite a long way from my geological background to botany and orchid found in the meadows does not excite me either; but what happened in Netherlands was a real blossom frenzy! Our trip to Netherlands (as I wrote in one of previous articles) was scheduled exactly into the time when the tulips – symbol of Holland - are in bloom.

 

Guys in the action (Evžen and Pali)

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So when the light was not ideal to make pictures of birds in those days, we have parked the cars next to the tulips fields and let ourselves to dazzle by the vast ocean of colourful flowers. It is quite extraordinary experience to dive into the field of blooms…

 

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I knew that the other guys (contrary to myself) have put tulips photography into their Holland-trip schedule and thus right after arrival to the fields they started to materialise their dreamt pictures. I have been struggling a bit at the beginning, shooting colourful lines and areas with wide angle lens but the pictures were about nothing.

 

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I have ended up with my bird-telelens 500mm mounted on the camera and taking pictures of individual tulips isolated within the fields of differently coloured flowers…to make it clearer – e.g. one white tulip in the field of red tulips...

 

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In fact it is nothing really special and it seems quite trivial during the photographing but what give the final pictures their charm is the small depth-of-focus that diffuses the colours in fore- and background and the contrast between the overwhelming colour of the field and the colour of the solitary bloom.

 

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And one kitschy picture at the end – the idea to lie down on the ground and get different perspective comes from Evžen, well, there is always something to learn :-)

 

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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 June 2010 14:11
 
Comments (51)
  • 2010-06-10 06:57:33 | | Petr Bambousek  - Nakažlivá zábava

    Focení tulipánů je hodně nakažlivé. Když jsem tam byl loni, tak jsem si přál, aby to nikdy nepřestalo. Bohužel jsem přijel o týden pozdě a ty velké širé rovné lány byly čerstvě pokoseny :-(

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  • 2010-06-10 06:58:55 | | Petr Bambousek  - Favorité

    Nejvíc se mi líbí fotky 5 a 6. Joj, ty jsou pěkný!

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  • 2010-06-10 08:19:55 | Jirka Slama

    Ahoj Petre, bylo to opravdove silenstvi a jeste vetsi peklo pak bylo ty fotky upravovat na pocitaci - jsou to neskutecne syte barvy a za chvili z toho boli oci, zvlaste z tech cervenych tulipanu...kazdopadne to byl uzasny zazitek a chvilemi, kdyz jsem byl zklamany ptaky, byl bych byval travil na tech polich snad i hodiny...

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  • 2010-06-10 11:04:25 | Srpice

    Krásná tulipánová pastva pro oči, já být ptákem, tak si tam postavím hnízdo.

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  • 2010-06-11 09:55:10 | Jirka

    Ahoj Sarko, v polich jsme tam videli jen Bazanty ale hnizda si tam myslim nestaveli :-)

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  • 2010-06-10 11:11:30 | Eva Smetíková

    Ahoj Jiříku,

    tulipány jsou moje oblíbená květina. Při prohlížení tvých fotek mám tulipánové orgie. Úžasný fotky ! A ty ptačí fotky jsou naprostá bomba, moc rády si je s Barčou prohlížíme.

    Díky moc za ptačí a květinové zážitky a hodně zdaru při dalším focení ! Evik

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  • 2010-06-11 09:56:58 | Jirka

    Ahoj Evo,
    diky za navstevu! Kdyz budete chtit, muzete mit nejalou fotku u vas na zdi.

    No vidis, treba se z Barcy geolozky stane Barca ornitolozka :D

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  • 2010-06-12 17:19:43 | Honza  - tulipany

    Ahoj Jirko,

    ty tulipany jsou fakt pekne. Mozna by sis mel zalozit novou vetev tehle stranky - o kytkach. Honza

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  • 2010-06-14 13:48:54 | Jirka Slama

    Diky Honzo ale kyticky necham odbornikum, toto byl jen takovy vedlejsi produkt i kdyz nepopiram, ze me to bavilo!

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  • 2010-06-14 16:48:15 | | Evžen Takač  - Tulipánový mág

    Ahoj Jirko.
    Tak konečně si zveřejnil tulipánovky. To je super. Fotečky moc pěkné a myslím, že jsme se tam pořádně vyřádili.

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  • 2010-06-15 14:08:37 | Jirka Slama

    Ahoj Evzene, to foceni bylo fakt super, sam jsem se prekvapil, jak me to bavilo! Mel bys uz take nejake dat na web (mas tam zati jednu), fotky z Camarque mas luxusni!

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  • 2010-06-14 19:48:24 | Kate

    Ahoj Jirko, ještě nikdy mě nenapdalo ti napsat... ale teď už neodolám. Mám tvoje stránky ráda, ale za ty tulipány děkuju! Dík... Už hodně dlouho mám na tapetě jednoho jespáka z Floridy (ten se neokouká:-), ale teď ho asi minimálně na chvíli nahradí tulipány. Miluju opeřence a tulipány...:-))) Krásný fotky.

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  • 2010-06-15 18:06:59 | Jirka Slama

    Dekuju Kate, na tapetu jsou ty fotky docela male, kdybys chtela vetsi verzi tak Ti je rad poslu :-)
    Dekuji za prizen a slova chvaly - vzdy potesi!

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