Chain Cholla About to Bloom
by Roger Passman
Title
Chain Cholla About to Bloom
Artist
Roger Passman
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Prints/limited Edition Prints/licensing
Description
Spring on the Arizona Sonoran Desert is my favorite time of year. First the hedgehog cactus blooms; the entire family related to the cholla is next including the teddy bear, hanging fruit, chain clollas along with their cousin the prickly pear. Finally, in mid-june the giant saguaro with its arms reaching to the sky gets a crown of white on their tops.
This photograph is of a chain cholla in April, about to open up to the pollinators, bees and others, who insure the continuation of the species. I photographed this along Jacob’s Crosscut (trail 58) in the Superstition Wilderness, a small part of the Tonto National Forest using a wide angle lens wide open to obtain the bokeh effect.
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A limited edition of 25 prints signed and numbered by the photographer are available directly from our studio. Sizes equivalent to any of the sizes offered as a print by demand through this online gallery are offered in this limited edition. These prints are only available directly from our studio gallery. Prints are delivered by US Mail rolled in a tube. For more information please contact me using the SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE option in the left sidebar of most of our online gallery pages.
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I processed the raw image file shot with a Canon 60D with an 18-55mm IS lens using Photomatix Pro 5, filters from Topaz Labs including Detail 3, BW Effects, ReMask 4 and DeJPEG 4 as well as some minor tweaking in Photoshop including sCurve adjustments, brightness, saturation and the camera raw filter to produce this Black and White HDR image.
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I donate 25% of the profits from the sale of this image to PROJECT ZERO: The Project to End Prostate Cancer in order to help develop better detection, prevention and a cure for this killer of males around the world.
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This image is, as are all my images, protected by international copyright conventions and may not be reproduced for commercial use without express written per
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April 8th, 2017
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