Day 12 - Squirrel-corn
by carofo

Comment:
This has a lot of great elements: excellent light, great sparkles. Unfortunately, it doesn't come together for me. There doesn't seem to be a focus point anywhere.

Day 11 - Poppies at sunset
by carofo

Comment:
Well composed and I'm a sucker for muted colors. Very pretty.

Day 10 - Gazanias
by carofo

Comment:
Love it. They almost look metallic. Great job.

Everything's Coming Up Clover
by MaryO

Comment:
Ah! Another clover flower thingy that I always walk on and never stop to take pictures of! I'll be laying out in the apartment's courtyard this weekend, heh.

It needs some brightening up, but I love the bits of dappled light. Maybe a little out of focus? I can't really tell. Nice shot overall.

IMG_6889 Toad Lily.jpg
by drydoc

Comment:
Someone below makes an interesting point about the broken stems. I'd assume that this is where you or someone has trimmed off an expired blossom or blossoms have fallen off? They do distract from the beauty of the whole, but look like they'd be really easy to clone out.

Painted Susan
by quiche

Comment:
I'm close to hating that foreground leave, heh. I think if that weren't there I'd like the image. The processing you chose distances you from the reality of the shot (if that makes sense). You took a pretty common scene and made it something not commonly seen, but the leaf looks too familiar. God that makes no sense!

The leaf is distracting. There... nice and simple, heh.

The background almost looks like the glass they use for bathroom windows. Nice texture.

Curious, did you intend to shoot at ISO 800?

710314
by undieyatch

Comment:
This would make a cool square crop, I think. I agree with the others, nice processing. The background is very soft and wispy. I just discovered that if you sit really close to the monitor, it gets even better, heh.

breezy
by Kelli

Comment:
What a cool flower.

6161 Poppy Bud
by pixelpig

Comment:
Had I not read your comments, I wouldn't have known there was any kind of tricksies going on. Pretty cool.

Oh, Susan...
by aliqui

Comment:

Originally posted by drydoc: White on white is sooo hard to do. The front left is the neat part of your image. The right is too blown out. Was wondering why you did not crop it out.

It's actually a bright yellow flower that I desaturated 90%ish. I kept the right side, because that's the stem of the flower. Had it not been a Fallen challenge, I probably would have cropped it out.