Spider Mum
by admart01

Comment by BrennanOB:
Lovely shot, how well it suits the challenge.......but a lovely shot.

Spider Mum
by admart01

Comment by SirBiggsALot:
great photo...bad choice for the challenge though

Spider Mum
by admart01

Comment by Albertmdh:
pretty, but not my interpretation of silence...

White Mum 2
by admart01

Comment by Mona:
Fantastic.

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by jmsetzler:

Originally posted by admart01: Thanks to all for my highest number of comments and highest scoring shot! I really liked this photo and glad others shared my enjoyment. The contradiction in the comments refect my trade-offs and conflicts when putting it together (border, b&w, tonal quality, composition) I get so excited when I see I've got a new comment and this challenge was quite exciting! I've gotten hooked on shooting flowers -- that could be a bad/good thing!

I love photographing flowers, even though I haven't done many. I have a long list of specific flowers I want to photograph in the spring and summer though :)

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by admart01:
Thanks to all for my highest number of comments and highest scoring shot! I really liked this photo and glad others shared my enjoyment. The contradiction in the comments refect my trade-offs and conflicts when putting it together (border, b&w, tonal quality, composition) I get so excited when I see I've got a new comment and this challenge was quite exciting!

I've gotten hooked on shooting flowers -- that could be a bad/good thing!

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings...

I like the composition here quite a bit and wouldn't change anything about it. Everyone can always ask you to show them something that isn't shown, and I don't usually agree with that. When I look at a photo, I ask myself 'What is the photographer showing me?' I never ask 'Why isn't the photographer showing me this?' I accept what I see as what I'm supposed to see rather than it being a mistake of sorts. The problem you often encounter is that your viewer will have preconceived notions about what something looks like. When this is the case, some of them will ask you why you didn't show them what they expected to see. In this particular case, including the rest of the leaf and some of the stem would completely change the composition and theme of this photo. Your 'texture' would lose fighting ground to shape. You would be introducing more symmetry, which is not bad, but not necessarily good either.

My preconceived notions of this flower have nothing to do with shape or texture. I see death. This is a funeral flower. I think this lily is the evil nemesis of its relative Calla lily. To me, both are funeral flowers, but the peace lily is more descriptive and more associative with the subject. There is no sensuality in the peace lily.

It's a beautiful photograph and your score reflects an overall voter satisfaction with your work...

:)

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by karmat:
I love the color tones in this one, and the composition is very graceful.

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by GoldBerry:
nice color, light and texture. Love the crop as well - 6

Anthurium
by admart01

Comment by jonpink:
ugly border. but very nice hue and crisp as a knife. Good photo indeed.