Detailed and Smooth

[Anita Bower]

Center of a Lily at Longwood Gardens Conservatory--they smelled lovely.
Cropped, High Pass filter for details, Gaussian Blur selectively applied for softness.

[Nancy Bell]

Anita, this is downright sumptuous! Only in this gorgeous close-up do I see the reverse curves of the the style in the middle and the smaller "C" shapes of the surrounding anthers. (I had to check in a flower book to be sure I got the parts correctly named!) Beautiful soft white flower petal background. Great for the theme! You are the flower queen!

[Anita Bower]

Anita, this is downright sumptuous! Only in this gorgeous close-up do I see the reverse curves of the the style in the middle and the smaller "C" shapes of the surrounding anthers. (I had to check in a flower book to be sure I got the parts correctly named!) Beautiful soft white flower petal background. Great for the theme! You are the flower queen!

Nancy: Thank you for making me smile and making my day!!!! I, keep, a drawing of a flower in my photo notebook in order to remember the proper names. :-)

[Dennis Bishop]

Great job with the Gaussian blur!!! I like the aspect ratio of the image, too. And the curves of the petals contrasted with the dark background is a good element. It took me a little while to realize what I was looking at, there, and that's a good thing. This is a wonderful image.

[Arthur Morris]

Loverly colors, patterns, and image design and I like the soft light. a

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Anita,

Greetings. Just beautiful, Anita. I particularly like the contrasting texture of the anthers with the pistil & filaments (ah, Google define for me ;-) ). The dark bg against the blurred petals is just right. Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Hazel Grant]

I just have to say ditto. Superb.

[Anita Bower]

Great job with the Gaussian blur!!! I like the aspect ratio of the image, too. And the curves of the petals contrasted with the dark background is a good element. It took me a little while to realize what I was looking at, there, and that's a good thing. This is a wonderful image.

Thank you. I'm glad you had to look at it a bit longer. :-)

[Anita Bower]

Thank you very much Hazel, Arthur and Michael. I sometimes (often?) am not sure if my vision works for others. I appreciate the feedback.

[Diane Miller]

Your vision works for me, Anita! I love this -- all said above.

[Wendy Kates]

I love it too...especially the details of the flower parts that Nancy so kindly taught us the names of!

[gary ellwein]

Anita, I like the composition. I can imagine you moving around so the anthers don't overlap. Well done.