Solar Prominence
by rblanton

Comment:
Love this image! One of my favourites of the challenge. Congratulations on your top 10.

Orchids
by Nobody

Comment:
I knew this one was going to do well :) Many congratulations!

F I E R Y
by gaurawa

Comment:
This is a beautiful shot! Congratulations on 6th place :)

Orchid
by Matthew

Comment:
Congratulations, Matthew! Excellent closeup.

summer
by ursula

Comment:
Thank you so much for all the comments and the votes :) I'm very happy, I love flowers!

Sorry about not listing the details, I thought I had, but I guess I forgot once again.

Image made indoors, by a bright window in the afternoon. Used my trusty macro lens.

The image was shot RAW, most processing done in Nikon Capture Editor (adjusted exposure, curves, saturation). Saved as TIFF.

Opened in PSP9, cloned out a couple imperfections, adjusted colours a bit more, resized, noise reduction, sharpened, saved as JPG.

Tulip Season
by Judi

Comment:
Hey, Judi, top 10! Congratulations.

Iris
by md8speed

Comment:
Many congratulations! Beautiful image.

The Inspector
by scalvert

Comment:
Congratulations, Shannon! I really like this shot. :)

White Poppy
by pointandshoot

Comment:
Wow! I'm glad I got around to seeing this one. It's beautiful! The white petals look like crumpled silk. (9)

Ranunculus Acris (Buttecup)
by Hauxon

Comment:
I love these flowers! I like the image, with just the one buttercup in focus, most of the rest slightly out of focus to completely blurred. Beautiful colours. (7)