Just needs a touch of lighting on the underneath side of the hat to separate from BG. A couple of the butterflies are a little washed out but i like the arrangement.
original comment during the challenge: What hat? With a hat, it's a magic trick. Without it, it's an attractive bunch of paper (?) butterflies that are unfortunately unconnected to magic or mystery.
It IS a pretty picture, though, and I would vote it higher in a different, more relevant challenge. 4.
Followup comment:
After viewing the shot with a friend, she realized that the dark felt horizontal thing is the hat's brim. During the challenge, and until she said that, I thought that was the surface on which the hat was supposed to be resting.
So - the takeaway here is that viewers don't always see what we see!