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Comment by MayaM:
Wonderful colors, contrast and focus. Great choice for the challenge.

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Comment by tadpole3141:
Wow - What kinda alien leaf form is that?

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Comment by AzCKelly:
Interesting picture, I don't believe I've ever seen a leaf like this before, Love the background, really brings out the subject.

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Comment by Kimberly75:
I like the leaf, great use of backlighting you can really see it in the layers of leaf

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Comment by Krikkit:
Nice! What kind of leaf?

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Comment by Cantique:
Very simple and lovely. What cool leaves these are and your choice of background really emphasizes their odd shape and inclusions of seeds or spores or whatever the round dots are. Very very cool!

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Comment by FotoMunki:
Now THAT is a very interesting leaf! Nicely done.

shape of a lure
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Comment by BMacD:
Hi! Here̢۪s a comment from the Critique Club.

First impression: Eyes definitely drawn to the bright yellow, down to the eye, to the buds on the right and then to the line attachment area.

Picture is busy with the plant competing for attention. The black areas actually encourage the competition between the plant and the lure by creating such strong contrast. A different background, say a rock or a log would have given more attention to the lure.

Glare from the light source is distracting. A soft or reflected light would have helped.

Your colour processing and DOF work well for the lure. Cropping could be a little to tight though!.

Your file size is a little small at 626 x 416 and 106k. Try to push the 640 and 150k size

I think you met the challenge well, the lure definitely has an interesting shape, and the yellow and black definitely catch your attention

leaf
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Comment by sherpet:
This leaf looks so surreal, ghostly actually, but so well taken.....

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Comment by GrayGhost:
Interesting shapes and patterns. Angled with a touch of depth might be even more interesting?