Pasque is Present

[MonikaC]

I went much more conventional today. And didn't even have to leave my driveway for this one. 4 image focus stack. C&C always welcome.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Nice job on this beautiful flower, Monika.

 

[AlanLichty]

I love the details and the colors. Getting the small bee/wasp is a nice bonus. I do find myself wishing that you had included the whole flower for at least one of the two blooms in the frame.

 

[MonikaC]

I love the details and the colors. Getting the small bee/wasp is a nice bonus. I do find myself wishing that you had included the whole flower for at least one of the two blooms in the frame.

That gave me lots of uninteresting background: pine needles & decomposed granite. Enough detail in them to make it distracting. And the lowest petal lip I hadn't focus stacked for, so it was a distracting OOF element at the edge of the frame.

 

[AlanLichty]

That gave me lots of uninteresting background: pine needles & decomposed granite. Enough detail in them to make it distracting. And the lowest petal lip I hadn't focus stacked for, so it was a distracting OOF element at the edge of the frame.

I was guessing at something like that. This does work quite well with the partial coverage of the blooms.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I like this one, very good detail.

 

[JimFox]

Her Monika, this is very cool. I actually was drawn to this because it was cropped so close. Cutting off the blooms is outside the box and it works here.

 

[Amy Earl]

Nice, sharp image. I like that the two blossoms are facing in slightly different directions. Lots of interesting things going on in the frame.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Well done, nice that the bug stayed put for a focus stack.

 

[MonikaC]

Well done, nice that the bug stayed put for a focus stack.

It was only in 1 frame, but I decided to keep it in there.