blanket flower and tickseed

[Ron Conlon]

Cut at the same time as the wild rose, did very well in a vase, and photographed today.
In a lightbox with remote flash and background, tripod D5100 1/200s f/18 ISO 100.

[John Robinson]

Everything good !Know what makes it for me ?- the missing Gaillardia petal !!!
John

[Ron Conlon]

A little imperfection goes a long way, thanks John.

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Ron,
I like the composition with the two different flowers. Nice tones to this. well done.

Allen

[Jonathan Ashton]

First class, an almost "perfect" image, the point John raises is one that chimes with me and probably many photographers this side of the pond, I suspect however that over there there may well be contrary opinions - lets see.

[Ron Conlon]

Thanks Jon. I have some things I want to try to inject a little more life and air...

[Diane Miller]

Well, way over here, on the Left Coast (across the big pond, a couple of mountain ranges and a small pond full of duckweed) the missing petal is the perfect grace note! I'd love the image anyway, but that touch makes it really special!

[Ron Conlon]

Anything I can do to promote world peace ;)

[Arthur Morris]

I like everything about this though I would not be crushed if the missing petal were present. Ron has got this technique nailed!