Jen I'm so glad your posting and as we discussed in the pm already about this post i just want to say to keep on getting your pics and learning the editing tricks is a big factor. ♫ :)sandi ♪ ♫
Even I liked the other one more, I think this one is very good too. Maybe you can try to make the red more shining ... but still, I am impressed by your first two posts.
The lighting on this is really nice. I love the shadow. If you can, try downloading the free version of Neat Image from the internet. You can only remove noise on JPEG files, but it works nicely and remove the noise before you do any kind of sharpening or you will be sharpening the noise. This is a lovely closeup shot.
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