philcUK comments: "... despite its many photographic faux pas especially the scorched out exposre it still works really well as a still life study."
Regmar: "One of the things I like a lot about this image is the way the contrast is set with dark outlining of the edges of the compositional elements. The door, the door frame, the plants are all overexposed ... like a charcoal sketch."

larengary comments: "the foreground may be blurred, but all it does to my eye is to bring the flowers into focus even more. And the blue background emphasizes that bright yellow color even more."

dreamer100 comments: " It's the only way you could get the texture, pattern and folds in the shot well enough to study! It breaks just about every rule there is but the interest level remains so high that it works beautifully as an image."

Samatar: "... you have done exactly what people should be in this contest; the scene is actually made more interesting because you broke the rules. If you had focussed on the scene outside the window, it would have been pretty mundane; maybe even a snapshot. But by focussing on the window frame and leaves, you have made the scene outside pleasanty blurred, and we get the feeling of intimacy, almost as if we ourselves are sheltering inside and observing the wet conditions outside with you."

While this is a very simple macro photo, the type of blur (probably from the dog's movement duing the shot) gives the photo a dynamic aspect that increases interest in the subject. The movement calls attention to the rich color by de-emphasizing the individual hairs: bringing them together in a single wave almost like a field of wheat bending in the wind.