Work for You or Not? "Exotic Water Lily"

[Dave Mills]

Shot this at Longwood Gardens last year. Looking to make a composition out of 2 adjacent pads.
Would appreciate all comments on this image!
Nikon D300,200mm macro,F/32,1/60,-1 comp,fill flash,tripod mtd.

[PeterCollins]

Hi Dave,

Love it,

The contrast and colors on the top left are excellent, the reflection is wicked as well. Almost a shame the lower right leaf doesnt have any coloring to it

Like it alot

[Ricardo Rodriguez]

Hi Dave,

I like it, I really like it! Extremely creative, IMO, and very well executed.

Ricardo

[Tom Graham]

It's ok, I find it some interesting.
Tom

[Vilma Rodriguez]

Hi Dave, it works fantastic for me!!!!

Vilma.

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Dave,

Greetings. I looked at this image several times since you put it up. I was first struck by the great color contrast (green-red, and orange-blue) and texture. But something wasn't working for me.

I played with a few things and came up with this:



Resized, resampled image in PS to square aspect ratio, then cropped from bottom right to adjust pad to pad size ratio and set a more radial pattern in the lower pad. The square aspect resize, changed the shape of the pads a bit to my taste.

Interesting image... thanks for posting it.

Cheers,

-Michael-