minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by alliebeal:
Nice shot of an intersting flower. The date stamp has to go, though.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by muur88:
these are facinating flowers. i'm surprised they don't call them leopard lilies, but perhaps there are already some of these leopard colored. your focus looks real good at the base. perhaps the other areas of focus are just a limitation of your camera.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by nixter:
uh oh

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by mycelium:
the date stamp has gotta go.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by Greebo:
Wanna make sure the date is spot on he ;) Rather switch it off, it is contained in the exif info.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by mist:
I'm not sure if you get a DQ for the date stamp, but I reckon it might cost you a few voting points, as it's pretty distracting.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by Photonurd:
I'm sure you've been made well aware of the date in the bottom right. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't orange. But putting that aside, I think your overall intention was in the right place with the main focus is on the flowers. But the petal in the center of the photograph fell out of focus there which normally would slip by, but since it's in the center, it becomes kind of distracting.

Overall, the image seems a little over-compressed or over-sharpened. On the upside, the colors pop really well against the green background, so well done on that! But I'd say pay close attention to choosing a definite focal point and making sure that everything you want focused is where you want it. 8o)

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by mpreslar:
Loose the date stamp! Also, the focus is very poor on this image.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by SquishyB:
I would have liked the whole flowers in focus and crop out the date.

minature purple lilies
by ejbunicorn

Comment by violinist123:
Turn off the datestamp. As you're headed for DQ, I'll just offer that you could back off the sharpening quite a bit. Good luck.