I love this. It moves me and I have no idea why:) Fantastic, vibrant colour; a mixture of soft and sharp detail. The eyes is kept moving across the image...I think I'm in love with it:)) 10
The pollen catched the light and creates some brilliant highlights - which everything else were a bit brighter. I like the striationd og yellow and red. An interesting layering of things in focus and out of focus - at different depths it seems - makes it abstact. Wish it were not cropped so close on the bottom - would prefer the center of the flower to be more balanced in the corner.
Just when I was ready to pronounce that every good photo of a flower had already been taken... Well, perhaps now I would be right in saying so... Very unusual, and quite compelling.
Wow - it almost looks like it's on fire. Interesting take on the challenge. I love the yellow versus red. Couldn't it use a touch more sharpness, or maybe that's the look you were going for.