THE PHOTO:
A stand of trees in the popular Labor Park in Dalian.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, levels/curves, shadow/highlight, USM.

This feed item was originally published on 21/07/2010 under: dalian, flora, photos, places

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
A butterfly in the gardens of Yeli Island - Zhuhai (possibly one of the many huge butterflies that the young boy in the previous photo was pointing at).

POST PROCESSING:
Sharpen, crop, levels/curves, edged vignette.

This feed item was originally published on 03/07/2010 under: fauna, flora, photos, places, zhuhai

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Aged roof tiles with small bracken growth. Taken in Zhuhai, China.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, Levels, USM.

This feed item was originally published on 27/06/2010 under: abstract, flora, photos, places, zhuhai

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Downward perspective into the heart of a Fern tree. Taken from the tree-top walk in the Otway forest outside of Melbourne.

POST PROCESSING:
Selective color (remove rust coloring from dead branches), Crop, Sharpening, Vignette, Color Balance, Levels and Curves.

UPDATES:
I'm out of the country for the next two weeks so I doubt there will be any updates to the site while I am gone (nothing to pre-post this time round) - but hopefully I'll be returning with a large set of new material.

This feed item was originally published on 03/06/2010 under: flora, photos

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Looking up in to the canopy of a large tree in the Otways, Victoria.

POST PROCESSING:
Several combined 55mm Filters.

OTHER:
Regular visitors will have noticed a lack of updating/publishing activity here on seriocomic.com as of late, unfortunately I have no new material, or the opportunity to obtain new material for the last 5 months. Hopefully this will change in the near future.

This feed item was originally published on 29/05/2010 under: flora, monochrome, photos

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
I used to take a lot of these types of shots, but now - being a city dweller - it's rare opportunities that I get to take a flower shot. I had to raid the archives to November last year when I was enjoying the beginning of summer in Daylesford for this image.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, Sharpen, Levels.

This feed item was originally published on 22/05/2010 under: flora, photos

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Not often you come across dinosaurs in the wild - these two are part of a troupe that are on show at the Otway Fly Tree Top Walk.

POST PROCESSING:
Several blended filters from the 55mm filter set, including bleach bypass, vignette, levels/curves.

This feed item was originally published on 19/05/2010 under: flora, general, photos

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
A dragonfly on a seat - paused - in between a wing-beat - still.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, Levels, Sharpen, Black and White, White Vignette.

This feed item was originally published on 15/05/2010 under: flora, monochrome, photos

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
From Yahoo! Travel:

Lenin Park, including the large lake in the center, was once Hanoi's dumping ground for household waste. Originally called Seven-Hectare Lake, the area lacked any appeal until after the French were defeated. Ho Chi Minh adorned the grounds around the lake with gardens, paths, statues and even an area for theatrical performance. The newly named Reunification Park became, and still is, one of the most beautiful parks in Hanoi. It was later renamed Lenin Park when the then Soviet Union befriended Vietnam during the American War.

POST PROCESSING:
I went for a specific look and feel for this shot, as both monochrome (black and white), nor color did it any justice. I aimed for a tone that reminded me of Asian landscape prints - almost duo-tone in nature. This was done with various 55mm Filters in Photoshop, some cloning, sharpen, shadow/highlight, levels and curves.

This feed item was originally published on 07/05/2010 under: flora, landscapes, photos, places, vietnam

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
A set of bonsai trees set aside for future potting and placement at the Imperial Palace ruins in Hue, Vietnam.

The poor state of the plastered wall behind the trees was a backdrop that brings as much to the image as the arrangement of the trees themselves.

POST PROCESSING:
Rotate, Crop, Sharpen, Bleach Bypass filter, Vignette, Dodge/Burn, Levels, Hue/Sat.

This feed item was originally published on 12/04/2010 under: flora, general, photos, places, vietnam

© 2010 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.