Bench reader
by Melethia

Comment by Mr_Pants:
They could almost be an old married couple who've grown tired of each other.

Barley'd rose
by Melethia

Comment by Jutilda:
That is beautiful. I love the editing. I think it suits it perfectly. :~)

Wine and roses
by Melethia

Comment by Alicia:
Aw man, Deb - this is awesome! It reminds me of those fairytale movies - the feel you get when watching Pushing Daisies - sort of surreal and yet real at the same time. I totally loved it during voting and am disappointed it didn't score higher.

Morning Glory
by Melethia

Comment by noraneko:
Wow, Deb! This is gorgeous! Great finish, especially in a FS. And look at those five faves!

Wine and roses
by Melethia

Comment by colorcarnival:
You know what's funny... I voted on this during the challenge, gave it a 7, and never even read the title lol. What I liked about it most was the perspective from under and behind the camera. I interpreted it as two flowers who were checking out the beautiful scenery together and they just kind of snuck into your photo. The sky looks great too. Well I appreciated it although obviously I did not see the original intention lol.

Wine and roses
by Melethia

Comment by Patsfan:
Nice lighting-could hve been a bit sharper.

Morning conversations
by Melethia

Comment by riversong:
Your tones and detail are nothing short of stunning! I love the stillness and beauty of this image.

Wine and roses
by Melethia

Comment by Ivo:
Nice shot but a bit of a stretch. Oh well, good luck!

Sudoku
by Melethia

Comment by cgino:
I love this image composition so much! Big cheese & wine, little guy, I was jarred into interest from the start :-) So I've spent some time playing, with it, hope you don't mind!
I guess what I'd most like to see would be more contrast... so I tried LucisArt 'whyeth' filter, then added some Redfield 'perfectum' to smooth it back down and got this:
which is not quite what I had envisioned.
Plus I got to thinking, not everyone has LucisArt and Redield and whatever flavor of the day plugins, so why not do it straight from PS? So I did a couple of different USM passes at different settings and a levels adjustment to get this:

Now I realize I have strayed from the norm, so why not keep straying??? So I strayed and made a colorized version based on the whyeth/perfectum version. The colorization was done by making duplicate layers of the original then applying colored filters to them then masking out the part of the image I didn't want colorized...probably a pretty clunky approach, but I've been having lots of fun with this technique and here is the result

Thanks, Deb, for posting such a wonderful image to play with!

Morning Glory
by Melethia

Comment by levyj413:
Another beautiful shot of this place, Deb. Congrats on doing so well in a free study!