Huh?
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Comment by Prof_Fate:
nice sign, but the composition says nothing. it is a picure of a sign, not a photograph

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by lockjawdavis:
The title lost me...

Huh?
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Comment by Kind of Blue:
What's logic have to do with it?

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by GinaRothfels:
Nice find.

Carnivorous Plants: Nepenthes Rafflesiana
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Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Greetings from the Critique Club
Hi Anne;
Got you again!

Initial thoughts/My opinion
Your submission lives from the shape and texture of the plant and a great background. It very comes short regarding the image quality though.

Content/Composition
The way you cropped the image was very well done IMO: letting the plant come down from the upper right works well for me and how the leave(?) goes up to the left too. I also like the texture of the plant.
What I like very much is the background: great fresh green and the yellow and orange spots make it interesting and dynamic. Way better than a simple uni-coloured background. Makes the image very natural.
The light is not very special though: looks very homogeneous, thus there are no shadows and brighter parts, which would give the plant more depth.

Camera work -technically
Exposure is very good and focus seems to be fine too. As mentioned by wetland, the DOF might be too narrow: the lower part seems out of focus in contrast to the middle section.

Digital Processing - Technical
As mentioned by most commenter the image comes short regarding its quality: it's rather grainy. While this works nice on the background, it's very problematic on the foreground. It makes the texture look fuzzy. Also it looks like been oversharpened, as one can see at the form the bright line around sharp structures.

Fits the challenge
Yes it does, I could envision the image in an article on tropical (?) plant in the rain forest.

Good luck for your upcoming submissions

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by nephrotic:
As this was appearing I was thing - Yes - Brilliant - something a bit different. I love the idea but I don't think the shape is quite near enough. I am glad though that someone did at least think a bit more out of the box and as it's a good shape and interesting I still go with a 7

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by brianlh:
nice find, creative intepretation & expression.

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by carlacryptic:
Cool idea, very creative.

Carnivorous Plants: Nepenthes Rafflesiana
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Comment by wetland:
Nice setting and angle, but too soft and DOF seems little narrow...may just be out of focus? More light to bring out the colors would help...neat plant though.

Swamp Dragon
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Comment by adine:
It is a bit of a puzzle - and I like that - look for the dragon. I found it - head on the upper right. Perhaps to rotate this a bit clockwise to make it a bit more dramatic composition, and since this is an "advanced editing" you could make the "eye" red or green to aid the imagination a bit.