I like the background here and especially like the "spotlight" effect on that flower. The sharp contrast here can't help but catch the eye. It appears on my screen as though the focus on center of the flower is sharp and ever so slightly turns softer at the petal tips. Maybe that's how you planned it ... maybe it's my screen ... or maybe I just need a visit to my optometrist ... Whatever, it's a dandy appraoch Frank.
Always remember - Follow the Yellow Brick Road, it will lead you to the Emerald City and OZ A very nice place to repose. Trust me on this one, I live there ............The Lion...................... MY GALLERY - The Magical Mystery Tour
It truly does what it advertises...blossoms out to meet us from that great variegated blurred background. I am impressed, Frank. I wouldn't have thought that this could work so well, but you've done it !!!!
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes