Really interesting shot. Although I can tell what the original subject was (the trees in the grass), the effect makes it feel more like an abstract weaving or handmade paper.

Kathryn: Jewlya, the effect of an extended shuttertime, handheld, and low light. No photoshop.

You've certainly got this off to a fine art, even knowing your work i thought it might have been PP'd. I might start drinking more and see if i can get similar results

Kathryn: Let me recommend you have a good slug off the old Tennessee Whiskey bottle. It always makes me see things differently

This is stunning!
It takes me into the forest, where the colours are warming even though the sun is still weak.

Kathryn: Thanks so much, Ray. Despite the fickleness of the sun here in Germany, winter's daughter is pushing her way through the dark. Yes, from the forest into the warm colors.

I like the right half of this very much. It is a lovely soft abstract of woodlands. The left is too heavy for me. The tree is too big and the dark green smaller tree too distracting.

Kathryn: The darkness of the tree is symbolic for me, Bill. On the left half is a winter-weary soul who longs for an awakening...the touch of Spring. You've commented before about the darkness of photographs that are not dark on my calibrated monitor or on either of my other computers with calibrated monitors. I wonder if your monitor is calibrated?

At any rate, thanks much for looking and leaving a comment. As always I appreciate them. Your comment today was great because it actually made me go check the darkness of the photograph on my other two computers and using various browsers!

Stunning again, love the colors...and yes Spring is coming...signs are all over the place...

Kathryn: Welcome back, Astrid. I've missed your comments and your photographs.

I like your series of seasons-odes- always beginning with poetic lines, a personal rendez-vous with the Spring! 'Our' (or my German) Spring is a 'He', a young, attactive, vivacious man, full of expectations and promises! I love the plenty of green, of shades and textures (artistic!) of green, green, green, green, this is the Spring-colour indeed -beside blue and yellow!

"Grün ist überall. Grün branden die Felder.
Nur die Straße ist ein weißer Strich
Quer durchs Grün. Aber herrlich,
Herrlich grün lodern die Wälder.

Die Lerche sirrt. Der Himmel ist blau.
Sonst überall ist nur Grün.
Ein kochendes Grün, ein erzgrünes Glühn-
Flirrend darin eine Bauernfrau

Mit weißem Kopftuch, und ihr rotes Gesicht
Trieft flammend vom unendlichen Licht.
(Georg Britting, Grüne Donauebene)

Kathryn: Oh Philine, i LOVE the imagery in this poem. I am going to do a translation tomorrow and send it to you as well as post it here. Everyone should be able to enjoy this in English!

I am glad to know you are enjoying the series. I am not much of a series person, so I felt the huge differences in the seasons allowed me the conceptual flexibility, I need. Now I am having to mull over summer. I am a person of summer. It is my season. I was born on a very hot day in Texas in June.

When were you born, Philine, and what is your season?

Yet I hear Elliott warning us about this heady mixture of memory and desire...

Kathryn: those desires which are nourished by memories...powerful stuff.

I am amazed that there is no Photoshop wizardry here - I am sure if I did this, it would just end up looking blurred. Instead it has the look of some embroidered fabric. Very beautiful.
Ingrid

Kathryn: Thanks, Ingrid. Give it a try using a VR lens, although I also use my lens that are not VR, I've noted a bit of a difference in the outcome.

There are not only different names for the 'Spring' but also different genders:
am./engl. spring/spring-time (f/m?)
fr. le printemps (m)
it. la primavera (f)
sp. primavera (f)
port. primavera (f)
hebr. aviv (cf. Tel-Aviv) von av father, head (m)
arab. rabea = springtime or girl(f)
germ. der Frühling (m), der Lenz (m)
dutch de lente(m?), het voorjaar
lat. ver
gr. to ear (n!)
VZ wrote: In Russia, Spring is a beautiful girl/young lady.
VERY INTERESTING!
(Who in the international SC-company could add other names from otherlanguages (or correct my remarks)?)

Kathryn: Philine...I am always so interested in the genders of things in languages that use genders. The seasons are no exception. Although in English we don't assign genders to the seasons, in American we have constructs of them we use... z.b. "Old Man Winter" ..Spring is a young girl. I generally see the world Fall as male, but Autumn as female. And you know, Philine, I am just not sure about Summer.

Terry has posted the sanskrit for Spring below and some information about it. What a great question..now has me wondering.

A stunning picture Kathryn. A real invitation! Well done.

Kathryn: An invitation to Spring...nice!

Nice tones and effect of texture !!!

Kathryn: Thanks, Ann. Hey what is the French word for Spring, is it m or f, and what form does it take...young/old, pretty/not so pretty?

Wonderful capture Kathryn.

Kathryn: Thanks, Aussie.

lol at Nigel's comment.Kathryn you really do have this technique finely tuned and this is a wonderful example, i salute you

Kathryn: That, Nig! I advised him to take a long swig off a bottle of Tennessee Whiskey before he picks up his camera

I really like your romantic poetry, Kathryn.

Kathryn: Thanks much, Chad. I like writing it too.

This would make a wonderful illustration.

Kathryn: Thanks, Mary. it is an illustration..an illustrative photograph to go with my Ode. So I guess we are thinking along the same lines!

i have never seen a response to spring quite like this one. maybe that's what makes this special. surprisingly, the tree draws me in.

for philine - 'vasant' is the sanskrit name for spring and it is used in the masculine form (esp. as a name) although the onset of the season is dedicated to the hindu goddess of wisdom.

The whole concept of Spring is a book unto itself, Kathryn, as you know. Your Ode would be the Preface and your image the cover jacket!

Interestingly, I did NOT see a tree at first! Seriously. I was looking from above and saw a path through fields of growing grain/grass. Wow. A therapist could take off on that one!

Artistic one ! Like the effect !

Nice! Very interesting effect!!

Hello!
Thank you for your comment! Your photos are also very beautiful!

Greetings from Barcelona!

On my blog this week you see autumn pictures I took last week. So come over into my parlour and witness the sure signs that spring's tender arms are opening up on your side of the globe.

Excellent picture.

I love Philine's contributions here. In Afrikaans spring is 'Lente'. No gender connotations like in many other languages. But many a girl walking around over here is named Lente.

abstract, almost like it is painted with brushstrokes

Charming stuff Kathryn: how clever of you

Spring is coming, and we haven't even had a real winter! Damn it.
Yet it comes with lovely photos, i really like this one, the motion effect looks very nicely mystical.

The fresh colours of spring are cautiously sneaking into the dark green and brownish shades of this past fall-winter (I'm trying to be poetic).

GREAT pic, really nicely done.

russ. becHá (f)- Vesna- Spring, and how many girls from Belorussia, Sarajewo, Montenegro have the name 'Vesna'!

turc./pers. bahar -Spring, name for girls 'Bahar'

I can feel the wood nymphs getting busy, mystical picture, very lovely

Love it, Kathryn. Soft on the eyes...and you know how much I like softness in images.