untitled periwinkles

@martie: thank you! sometimes i feel like i need to compensate for my point and shoot with photoshop to make it look like an untouched dslr ;) but i'm trying to overcome that urge in the interest of saving time.

@MaryB: Thanks a lot! And thanks for letting me know what the flowers are called -- I'm really bad at flower names. I changed the title to include that information.

@baobab: thanks baobab. this one was definitely a time consuming photoshop processing. couldn't have controlled the color that much in picasa, and more importantly, couldn't have processed the leaves differently from the flowers.

picasa can do a lot though, like today's shot was all in picasa except for very slight vignetting i added in photoshop -- i think i have only two shots where i did the black and white conversion in photoshop, the rest were in picasa and i got positive comments about the (totally picasa automated) conversion in a number of them.