A rose with two-lips
by parrothead

Comment by jbsmithana:
One of my top two picks. Although it is stretched a little for the Botany challenge (sex sells I guess) I still give it a 10 for the composition, color and clarity. This shot would make an excellent ad for the rose industry at Valentines Day. Great shot overall!

Neon Gracie
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Comment by piwoguy:
I don't like the border, but I like everything else about the image- very surreal. (The border seems too clean-cut for the style inside the border)

A rose with two-lips
by parrothead

Comment by Mary Ann Melton:
This is an excellent photo - well composed - really tells a story. Nice job.

Neon Gracie
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Comment by sidpixel:
what a lovely image!

Neon Gracie
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Comment by Dave Gordon:
The red shape is interesting, but I don't feel that it really goes with the face or the overall picture.

A rose with two-lips
by parrothead

Comment by Olyuzi:
A magnificent composition. The selective desaturation is brilliant and along with the soft focus and contrasty lighting makes this a period piece (30's, 40's, 50's). Only problem is that I do not see this as meeting the challenge theme. This is artistic as opposed to scientific representation, whiich I believe the challenge is about. Would be a 10 otherwise.

A rose with two-lips
by parrothead

Comment by e301:
Not at all a bad attempt at a very design-lead stylish image. I think, however, that such very stylised photography requires a bit more PS work to really give it some pop - or a bitt more set-up care. Problems for me are an overall graininess of feel, a sense of wrong colouration on the chin (from those small hairs, and easily fixable I'd have thought), the white marks on the rose, and a feeling of congestion within the image which comes from cropping so very close to the subjects - the rose and the lips. It feels a little lke standing too close to a wall - there is no spcae for the eye to circulate around the image. It has the beginnings of an intersting idea however, certainly - just perhaps needs a bit more definition in terms of light and shape. 6

Neon Gracie
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Comment by computerking:
Cute kid, nice pic.

Neon Gracie
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Comment by melismatica:
Very interesting portrait. The color is appropriate for the child. I'd like to see a little more brightness in her face.

Neon Gracie
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Comment by soccerrocker1989:
how cute!!!!