Mistakes
by paperpages

Comment by Citadel:
Great idea. Make sure you use the full size allowed for the challenge.

Mistakes
by paperpages

Comment by EstimatedEyes:
Best of the challenge. The photo fits perfectly. 10.

A Green Idea
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Comment by paperpages:
Wow I had hopes this would do well but I never imagined it would be 5th! Thanks for all the votes and comments. And two favorites!! I actually was going to shoot something else, glad I went with this idea instead. I figured there would be similar entries so I decided to wrap the stem around the bulb, thinking it might help it be a little more unique and well, pretty. :)

This was shot in a homemade lightbox. I used poster putty to stick the bulb in place standing up (I was really scared it was going to fall over and break LOL). I taped the ends of the stem down to wrap it around the bulb and used more poster putty to position the flower in place.

Post processing I just auto leveled, cloned out the putty and a small corner of tape that could be seen, and burned part of the stem to make it stand out more.

A Green Idea
by paperpages

Comment by Lutchenko:
Congratulations on 5th place
Looks like a few of us had the same idea eh lol

A Green Idea
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Comment by JohnStarkweather:
I like the colors of the flower and how the stem wraps around with the bulb. How did you get the bulb to stand up straight?

A Green Idea
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Comment by jbushy:
Great way to integrate the two sides. This works best out of the light plants.

A Green Idea
by paperpages

Comment by Connor:
wow, great shot, love the colours

A Green Idea
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Comment by Kavey:
Popular idea, nicely executed. Not sure the sheer amount of negative space adds much here; closing up to the subject would give more impact I think.

A Green Idea
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Comment by daryn:
By far the best of this type - A little more light in the middle of the flower would have made it even better.

A Green Idea
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Comment by retiredPhil:
A lot of CFI's in this challenge. Sure hope we know what we're going to do with the mercury.