Color Climax Baby Onesie

This is an enhanced photo of Spring azaleas in my front yard.

Flowers are Nature's most beautiful objects. I photograph these lovely blossoms and then in my studio I enhanced and enchant the colors to create wild and charming compositions.

I only use the simple freeware that came with my Canon camera to manipulate the color, contrast and saturation. I do not use Photoshop or any other powerful software. Nothing in the photo has been altered. It looks exactly as I took it. Except of course the colors have been enhanced for artistic excitement.

Larry Beat hails from Toledo, Ohio but has called the Emerald Coast Florida his home for 30 years. A 20-year Air Force veteran, he worked for the City of Destin for 13 years in Planning and served as the City's photographer. His photos have been published in The Destin Log and the NW Florida Daily News. He also photographs for the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce. His photos have been featured in the annual Mattie Kelly Environmental Institute's calendar. Larry has been an artist for over 60 years, starting his artistic ambitions as an 10-year old attending Saturday morning art classes at the Toledo Museum of Art during a 4-year span. Later, at the University of Toledo, he continued art studies as well as French...