{"id":4043,"date":"2016-10-11T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vargiskhan.com\/log\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2016-12-16T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:00:59","slug":"blue-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vargiskhan.com\/log\/blue-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue flower isn’t really that uncommon, even roses come in blue color I believe. However what really interested me about the flower in the picture below was that it was the only flower that of a different color amidst thick greenery. There were a lot of flowers around but most of them were either a shade of red or yellow and this only blue flower presented such a high contrast that I couldn’t resist stopping my Thar and click a few pictures.<\/p>\n

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Blue Flower<\/p><\/div>\n

Picture above is slightly edited of course. I desaturated all the other colors to highlight the blue a little more. I did this in Photoshop and the trick is quite a simple one really. Let me know if you would like to know how and I can post a quick step by step tutorial.<\/p>\n

Here is the original and unedited version of the flower.<\/p>\n

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Blue Flower<\/p><\/div>\n

As I said, shades of green, yellow and red all around and this was the only flower that stood out., looking quite stunning if you asked me.<\/p>\n

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Blue Flower<\/p><\/div>\n

If you noticed in this picture, the flower is kind of purple towards the bottom and turns deep blue on the petals. I do not know the name of this flower but I saw quite a few of these and in multiple colors during my trip to Lansdowne, a small hill station in Uttarakhand. It was the monsoon season so greenery and flowers were in ample.<\/p>\n

Camera I used was my Nikon D7000. Initially I had the 18-105 lens mounted however the flower was a little deep inside the bushes and away from the road due to which I my 18-105 wasn’t quite doing the job even at full focus. I switched to Nikon 70-300 lens, mounted it on the tripod and clicked these shots at full 300 focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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