This one just takes my breath away Robert, it is so beautiful. I don't usually like borders, but these so belong there it's not even funny. Sky high marks, and desktop. Thanks for this one. Dwight.
This is a gorgeous bloom and you've captured it so well! I am a big fan of borders, but I feel the color in these is a bit too bold and takes away from the beauty of the flower a bit. I would love to see it with a more muted border. But, nevertheless, this is a beauty. The sunlight gives it a wonderful glow. Very well done!
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Technically another immaculate image. In particular the lighting, composition, background elements. The glowing semi-transparentency in the centre tends to attact and hold the viewers eye. The subject matter is also interesting as it is unusual. Bob
Your wife grows pot? Just kidding. I love this shot. I also love the way you chose a seemingly arbitrary cropping ratio that's not the ordinary 1.3 one that comes from the camera. Good eye for using color. My color frames always seem to overpower the image. I like the way you arranged yours
Another example of Mother Nature at her best and a photographer that definitely knows how to both capture and present it in such a fashion as to make it a very memorable image. Gets a 10 by me and thanks for my new desktop.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William Faulkner
Superb shot, Robert. The composition, lighting on the flower and slightly darker background make this just stunning...to say nothing of the unusual shape and color of the flower itself. Wonderful result here! Frames can be a problem sometimes, but I think this one adds a real touch of class.