Neon Iris Dark Background
by Conni Schaftenaar
Title
Neon Iris Dark Background
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art Photograph
Description
When my parents built the house I grew up in, my mom planted irises in a V-shaped bed at the front of the house. About 30 years later, I took some corms from that bed when it needed thinning and planted them in a flower bed on the farm my husband and I had just moved to. Now another 30+ years later, they still bloom in late May. My friend, Crystal, took a photo of one perfect bloom over the recent Memorial Day weekend and said I could play with it in Photoshop, so here's one thing I did with it, turning a pretty blue iris or "flag", into a neon beauty by filtering and color manipulation. Some wild columbine growing among the irises provide some orange accent color in this digitally manipulated photo. This version on my gallery I darkened the background at the request of someone who wanted to buy the image and wanted the background darker. So I did, because I can :-)
3rd Place win in the Flower Plants Digitally Altered contest, March 2023
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January 19th, 2018
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Comments (10)
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Conni, on your Win in the Flowering Plants Digitally Altered Contest. Beautiful! Voted. L/F
Conni Schaftenaar
thanks so much, Viktor and Hanne, and to all who voted this to a 3rd Place win in the Flower Plants Digitally Altered contest!
Hanne Lore Koehler
Congratulations, Conni, on your FLOWERING PLANTS DIGITALLY ALTERED contest win with this gorgeous iris creation! L/F
Michael Durst
This artwork of an Iris is stunning! Love the colors and composition...as well as the back story!