doing the wrong thing

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

if I have gone overboard with the day lily pictures this summer (and I certainly have) it is a natural reaction to the fact that they have gone overboard in their display, not just here and there but all over the Grove. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Center Street

Hemerocallis fulva

the initial view of this image was quite gratifying; for once I caught something reasonably well in its own act of catching light.  the internal glow, the texture, the way the yellows and greens flow into the reds and oranges: it was all there, even the way the spider web picked up those shades from the flower.  BUT in preparing it for this space I ended up doing it a grave disservice; shrinking it down to 1024 x 768 (my self-imposed dimensional limits for images in this space) didn't do it any favours at all.  the second gasp was as deep a one of disappointment as the first had been of pleasure. 

there are two ways to get this one right visually.  one would be to stop by and look at the raw image on the monitor hanging on the wall.  please feel free to do that.  the other would be to request a print through the imagekind gallery. 

I'll upload a high quality version there on request, either in a comment to this post or by email. 
I would so like to correct that mistake. 

one more view ...

Hemerocallis fulva

Comments

[djaza.livejournal.com]

This one looks great. Of course I didn't see the original. Don't feel bad, what we see is beautiful.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

that's what's frustrating about this; it's an O.K. picture, but it was so much better before getting mashed down even to the size you get when clicking through past the thumbnail.  if it was good enough to please others I suppose I really should find a way to be content with it. 

[djaza.livejournal.com]

Well, no you don't have to be content with the image. You can see the magnificence of the original and KNOW what we are missing.
We see the compressed version and it looks good to us. I think having the option of viewing it in the website is good. Al tho, when I clicked on the link my computer couldn't find it.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

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> ... when I clicked on the link my computer couldn't find it.
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that, at least, I can fix: a typographical error in the post's HTML. 
try it now ... 

[djaza.livejournal.com]

OK, I will.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

That top one's a beauty. The lower one too.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

thank you.  your kind words are appreciated all the more because I've looked in your journal and seen your work (that goes for djaza too).