... crocuses from now on, I promise! I hope I'll be back with some architecture stuff next time...

... I was a little early with yesterday's posting: It got pretty cold again, and the forecasts keep on anouncing snow for the weekend!

But this of course won't prevent me from posting more flower shots, right?

Temperatures were rising last week and the first crocuses popped out by Friday... As I even managed to get out on Saturday afternoon, I'll be posting a few more flower shots in the next days!

And since all upcoming images are somehow related to Spring, I'm introducing a new "Spring" tag today!

Other detail that should be mentioning: I've been struggling with "artifacts" arising from the Gimp's gaussian blur filter for quite some time! When this filter is run on very uniform image regions (such as very smoothly blurred backgrounds) and more post-processing (such as contrast stretching) is applied afterwards, this (because of the Gimp's 8-bit limitation) often results in ugly posterization effects becoming visible through bigger brightness steps. I managed to reduce this effect by including a simple colour dithering algorithm in the IIR method of the gaussian blur filter. Results are looking great, so this is a big relief for me as it simplifies post-processing quite a lot!

... posting some more flowers today!

I found this one while browsing my NYC folder... Since I liked the composition more than I did 3 years ago, I decided to spend some time with post-processing!