Rose
by patio127

Comment:
Nice job. Can be difficult to get these without parts of the petals blowing out.

Knotweed
by MaryO

Comment:
Looks like it is bathing in moonlight. I like the dark images.

Dent de Lion
by GeneralE

Comment:
Very nice, soft light and a nice vignette effect as it falls off towards the back.

Asters
by inamo

Comment:
Nice colors. Flash is pretty harsh straight on, wonder how they would look lit from the side?

Naked-Lady-triptych
by sfalice

Comment:
Very pretty flowers. The triptych looks a little odd with the uneven frames tho.

Zinnia
by FrostyPaws

Comment:
Wow very cool. Perfect DoF or did you lay some gaussian blur over the rest of the image? Either way the isolation of the center bits is perfect, and the whole shot has a very dark, dreamy feel.

Pink Freesia
by BAMartin

Comment:
Little bit of zoom blur? I like the sense of motion, though it does make it hard to settle the eye within the image.

Wedding Photographer
by jtf6agent

Comment:
In my opinion it's a better photograph than 4 or 5 that placed higher, and a toss up with the rest. Close enough where personal fickleness would have a lot of weight in the final placement.

You are right about the voting to some degree. The same shots continue to place high and will continue to do so until the end of time. Recent ribbon winning shots that are just re-hashed ribbon winning shots ("oh my goodness, I can't believe this did so well") are the way things go here. Not sure about the seeming inevitably of recognizable faces placing high. Could be what you infer, but they aren't bad shots either generally.

Anyway, I like your shot quite a bit. If details like the darkness of knuckle creases were really determining factors in the minds of most voters, the top 10 would be a very different place. (It's a good comment, but if ribboning is your concern I wouldn't put a lot of weight in thinking like that. Look at all the robot-eyed, neat image abused 'model' shots that people gush over).

Message edited by author 2008-08-18 19:49:13.

Susans and Delphinium
by banmorn

Comment:
Very nice. A classic looking shot. Love the background.

cool twist
by bnilesh

Comment:
Very stark, dramatic shot. Love it.