Ecological Edge Effects
by eamurdock

Comment by Lactobeezor:
Great capture and nice edit

At the dock
by eamurdock

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Nice and sharp - Maybe concentrating in on a couple of the subjects could have worked better

Ecological Edge Effects
by eamurdock

Comment by good_ham:
The brightness of the ground behind the leaf looks wrong. It is distracting. I like the overall shot, though.

seeds
by eamurdock

Comment by Judi:
Interesting angle with good backlighting.

Poppy2.jpg
by eamurdock

Comment by eamurdock:
I like it because it has an almost painting-like quality to it; it's composed of large relatively uniform blobs of color that still communicate what it is. I feel like it communicates the "gesture" of a flower without feeling the need to reproduce a flower; since not very much photography goes in this direction it speaks to me.

Poppy2.jpg
by eamurdock

Comment by colorcarnival:
My personal taste is for defined lines in a pic. I am not a big fan of soft focus unless you can make out the details still. I hope you will post somewhere why you like this so much. I make that statement out of curiosity because a pic like this goes in the opposite direction of what I normally like to look at. A different perspective would be enlightening.

Ecological Edge Effects
by eamurdock

Comment by c3real:
Nice

Poppy2.jpg
by eamurdock

Comment by posthumous:
The OOF is perfect. That's the best part of this. It's the OOF that makes the colors so beautiful. Colors are just colors after all, waiting to see what we do with them. My only suggestion is a more interesting composition, but I'm perverse that way. The composition actually works very well, it just seems "familiar".

Poppy2.jpg
by eamurdock

Comment by Jaded_Housewife:
I love the way the background looks but the flower is just too soft overall for me. if even just half of the flower was in focus and then it dropped off that would make it dramatically better. The colors are lovely however.

At the dock
by eamurdock

Comment by DavidLopez:
Very nice...