Branches
by SharonS

Comment by BrianR:
Natural shadows good

Branches
by SharonS

Comment by albc28:
I'm at odds here as to where your focus was. If you are focusing on the shadows (which it should be) the scenery in the background is distracting. To the point where you don't even look at the shadows.

If it's on the scenery in the background...it was captured nicely except the brance is in the way.

To mix it in focus being on the shadows and the scenery, taking the photo from a lower height may have achieved that intention.

Great capture of depth, nice amount of focus, good ligthing and color.

Branches
by SharonS

Comment by hotpasta:
really nice image...looks refreshing under there

Iris Drops
by SharonS

Comment by joecoopdog:
This is a gorgeous image, as someone stated below I thought this was a winner as well until I looked a bit closer at the challenge. Now by the letter you were in the rules, but in the spirit we all know the centerpiece is not the water but the beautiful flower. This is one of the prettiest flower pictures I have seen in quite some time, and I am so pleased to see it garnered a ribbon to boot. I find it somewhat irritating that people have such a lowly view of one of the most photogenic objects for macro, flowers are simply amazing. I liken this to people who would have a lowly view on the female form because they are as plentiful as flowers as well, so I would say bahh humbug to the flower naysayers. At least one can look into the ratings and see you have some very impressive numbers with not a single comment below 4, that makes me feel a little bit better, but still I can't reason the skill and overall quality to be any less than a 6 from even the people who don't care much for flowers. ahh ohh well, I guess there are the hyper critical crowd who think beauty is a measure of comparison to something "different" I find beauty and different to be very different from one another, and if I were to rate this it would have a 9 or possibly a 10 (I have a sort of thing for flowers that aren't living at home in the garden) and well I think would be robbing people of the chance of at least a tie in comparison. There is so much that is beautiful to capture in an image in this world, and I find the 10s a little too synthetic for my liking ;) lack of perfection to me is what makes perfection if that makes any bit of sense to you :) and the fact the droplet kept falling to its natural home made this perfect to me, even if that was not your intention as you were caressing droplets onto the lovely petals. Wonderfully executed droplets on a most gorgeous specimen of a flower.

kindest regards,
joe

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by Neil:
This would ave made a great entry into abstract. Very beautiful colors.

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by kevrobertson:
Really like this.
Could have done well in abstract.
You have really captured nice textures here.
Good luck

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by magnus:
Would have done really well in the Abstract challenge! Wonderful mess of colors-8

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by Beagleboy:
This would have been AWESOME for the abstract challenge.

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by Jeileen:
Wow this is awesome - quiet an abstract....looks like a Monet.

Vibrant Hydrant
by SharonS

Comment by BrennanOB:
Does this count s a depiction of another's work? I don't know but I know I like it. Georgeous colors.