No crop, invert, convert to bw, adjust gamma, USM, scale, sharpen for web. Frame. Smudged two or three dew drops that showed up like black specks - didn't disappear them entirely.
Liked the way the background foliage showed up in the negative conversion.
Post: don't know if I am pleased or disappointed! I liked this to start with, but having to see it for a week, well, that is a nice acid test. The range of scores makes a nice graph: needs only one 1 and one 10 to be perfect.
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This is so very good, actually 'awesome', as I love the effect you have achieved here very much. I just like the effect very much, and I am so pleased to have finally viewed this image.....