Can anyone give me any feedback as to why this crocus scored so much better than this pansy My personal preference is for the pansy, and I had hoped it would be better received.

label it a crocus


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The crocus is much more texturious .. with the lines on the petals, the two-tone motif, and the three-dimensionality of the concavity in the center

the pansy looks like a damaged specimen .. not that there's anything wrong with weak, bedraggled, worse-for-wear specimens .. we all fit into that category on some days ... but you got some perky voters that day and they were having none of it


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Perhaps the people in the voting booth were having bad hair days when they voted low on pansy, and good hair days when they voted high on crocus. Or maybe some liked purple more than they liked pink. *Shrug*

Voters are often very fickle.

OK, time to move on then:)
To me the pansy does not look worse for wear however, perhaps I see a mirror image or something.
Will hunt out more crocii and keep my pansies to myself :)

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your foofiness rank is higher than mine .. ergo ..

you know the sound of one pansy clapping

i posted another pansy yesterday - will be interesting to see if it is the 'pansy factor' that has an effect.
No comments were made about the other ones bedraggledness :)

To me the crocus photo is much more appealing then the pansy; for some reason the color in the pansy photo look washed out, particularly the leaves in the background, possibly due to lighting? I think this is why Keifer thought the flower itself was worse for wear, because it looks faded and less lively than the crocus. The angle on the pansy is also less appealling I feel, in the pansy photo it looks like you were standing above looking down on top of the flower rather than snapping the centre of the subject (this could be due to the angle of the flower rather than the angle at which you were positioned, but the effect is the same). Finally I think that the crocus is somply more interesting in terms of "macro" photography, the shape and texture, whereas the pansy as a flower is "flatter"... pretty as a group planting in a grden perhaps, but not as appealing as a crocus as the main subject in a macro photo.

*faints*

Smelling salts at the ready Sam :)

Thanks for opinion.

Strangely,I really tried with that one, taking a dozen shots ( I was impressed with the colour of it) and getting some very odd looks from old ladies walking their dogs at the Gardens, as I knelt on the ground. The crocus was a single shot, a final click as I left to go home.
I liked the pansy for a start but now am beginning to see it through the eyes of others. I think I will delete it.

poor sad pansy, bowing its head in shame

*cries*

don't get your pansies in a twist .. it suffered because you got your clickers in a bunch

the crocus with the focus holds the notion that is true

My pansies and my clickers are as untwisted as is possible after all that ground hugging and pansy shooting.

*stops crying*