totally wet tulips...
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Comment by char:
Endless rain, clouding light.
Within petals, "still life".

And from my favorite tea bag: Dark clouds are things that pass. The blue skies abide always.

totally wet tulips...
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Comment by lovetoshop9:
Enchanting!

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Comment by joezl:
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

This is a very appealing image as many of the commentors have said. The different shades of blue from dark to light make for a very soothing pattern of light and dark. The diagonal composition also works well making the image almost mesmerising. I keep moving along the diagonal back and forth.

I am surprised it didn't score higher in the challenge. I suspect that that's because voters were interpreting pattern very narrowly to mean 'repeating pattern' of some sort. I guess if the challenge called for repeating patterns then it would have been called Repeating Patterns - but what can you do!

Technically, the image is let down in a few areas. The blue mottling in the darkest part of the image is distracting. At the top end the mid-blue is indistinct and the light blue is also mottled and fades into white. I think tyhat all this detracts from the overall impact of the picture. Don't know if more could have been done to correct some of this in post-processing. Certainly much could have been improved if it were an advanced editing challenge - but it wasn't.

Overall, an effective and impactful image which should have scored better. Well done.

Icy
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Comment by MayaM:
Love the muted blue color here. Very soothing.

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Comment by mfitch_or:
I like the idea - the balance between black and light isn't where I'd like -

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Comment by obsidian:
very nice indeed - fractals rule?

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Comment by hutch699:
brrr...good capture

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Comment by liveaboard:
Quite interesting.

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Comment by lindes:
I saw the thumbnail first, and thought this was an ocean beach (with dark sand, I suppose) from a distant hill. :-)

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Comment by alien2thisworld:
Nice colors and great focus, though I'm having a little trouble identifying a repeating pattern in this image.