I borrowed the title from the song of the same name by The Foundations, a 60s British soul group (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iol0B-clFFM). Another cold grey day here and a sunny looking flower was just the thing to lift the spirits. Buttercups are common flowering plants and I love to see them carpeting the fields every spring. I applied a radial dial in Lightroom to lower the highlights on the flower caused by the strong sunlight. I thought it would lend itself to a black and white treatment as well.
January 31, 2017 at 9:20 am
Great shots !!! https://onemanoneclick.wordpress.com/
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January 31, 2017 at 10:30 am
Thank you!
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January 31, 2017 at 9:09 am
Very Nice! Like the B & W also!
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January 31, 2017 at 10:30 am
Thank you!
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January 30, 2017 at 11:20 pm
Yellow is my favorite color for flowers. Thanks for the cheery post today.
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January 31, 2017 at 7:44 am
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
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January 30, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Now I’ve got an ear worm.
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January 30, 2017 at 6:49 pm
I know, me too😀
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January 30, 2017 at 4:47 pm
Buttercups were one of the first flowers I knew as a child and their charm hasn’t diminished. Thanks for the lift!
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January 30, 2017 at 6:48 pm
For me as well. Happy the photos added a bit of cheer!
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January 30, 2017 at 3:18 pm
The title takes me back a few years… decades in fact… to when my buddy and I had a “mobile discotheque” – the legendary (NOT!) ‘Lefty and Mo’s Soggy Pretzel’ (blame MAD magazine for that). ‘Build me up Buttercup’ was unfailingly popular in the late ’60s in Southeast England! RH
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January 30, 2017 at 3:22 pm
Nice memories.
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January 30, 2017 at 2:01 pm
“Don’t break my heart…” I was humming before I finished the title. Lovely photo of a flower that always is reaching for the sky.
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February 1, 2017 at 3:51 pm
I know… catchy tune for a favourite flower. Glad you like it.
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January 30, 2017 at 1:48 pm
Beautiful! I adore buttercups!
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January 30, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Thank you. So do I!
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January 30, 2017 at 12:11 pm
I love how you can see every little hair on this flower. Beautiful.
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January 30, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Thanks very much!
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January 30, 2017 at 11:55 am
I can’t wait for the buttercups! I happily celebrate the first one I see every year! It may be a bulbous buttercup, assuming I spelled it correctly.
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January 30, 2017 at 2:00 pm
They are wonderful to see, a sign that summer is truely upon us!
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January 30, 2017 at 11:03 am
Beautiful image – and despite myself I prefer the colour version. The out of focus ?flower at bottom left adds useful balance, and I love the spiders’ webs too. A 🙂
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January 30, 2017 at 1:53 pm
Thank you, I prefer the colour version too. Just finding my way in Tonality Pro for b/w, it’s interesting where it leads.
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January 31, 2017 at 1:16 am
Tonality Pro may be fine but, if you’d like to try something else, try Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2, which is currently being given away free by Google – also Color Efex Pro 4. A
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January 31, 2017 at 7:46 am
Thank you. I’ll have a look…
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January 30, 2017 at 4:51 am
I love the title and photos of as you say a very common flower. I have just found your blog , your photography is outstanding especially the wildlife. Nuthatches are rarely seen here, I am very envious of those pictures.
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January 30, 2017 at 7:44 am
Thanks very much!
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January 30, 2017 at 4:21 am
Having read about buttercups in our typically Eurocentric storybooks as a child, I was excited to see real ones on my first visit to England as an adult 🙂
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