Roses

[QuietOne]

Huh, guess this didn't take last week. I found this one as I was going through images for the annual holiday fict-, er, letter. I thought it was pretty.

[Realist]

The pink really stands out nice!

[Mad Aussie]

Beautiful colours Q1. The roses almost look transparent!

[Hillbillygirl]

Beautiful QO, especially with all the grey days along with snow here.

[Runmonty]

Lovely DOF - it stands out nicely from the background. To me there seems to be a fair bit of empty space at the top and wonder if a different crop may work.

[QuietOne]

Thanks, everyone. Runmonty, shaving a little off seems to work, but I didn't care for the 8x10 crop, and taking a closer crop to the rose left out some of the lovely background colors. See what you think.

[Runmonty]

I do prefer the 2nd one, and feel you could crop even more you wanted to and still retain the effect of that lovely creamy background. But hey, I understand the effect you are looking for and it has to be your artistic judgement and I wouldnt suggest you listen too much to my ramblings.