Hope I have time to clean the window a little more and re-shoot this because the specks in the lower portion of the image bother me...light must cooperate, though.
Stuck a leaf to the inside of a window which is about 30 feet off the ground and looks out onto a thin forest of trees. Looking closely some of the window reflections are noticeable. I generally like the way it turned out...it's very close to my vision of how it would be. Took many images and sorted through to find the one I liked the best...this may have to do. Heck, it's got smooth bokeh and the much-talked-about circles...how can I go wrong? :)
Processing: rotate, crop, levels, hue/saturation, flatten, sharpen, resize for web, re-sharpen, bumb saturation for web (except yellow) and submit.
addendum: Turns out the specks are on the outside of the window and even if I had cleaned them off I couldn't re-shoot because the sun was not cooperative this afternoon. Oh well. I'm leaving it in because I'm curious to see if the image is strong enough to overcome a minor annoyance that would otherwise be easily fixed with a few dabs of the clone tool. I don't have high hopes for that...expecting my usual 5.6.
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Cool title. Nice detailing on the leaf. Not overly unique, but the texture and color variance on the leaf is good. This has a nice simplicity, which many of the natural ones in this challenge do not.
Lovely bokeh, nice classic circles. Interesting shot. I think I see what looks like a piece of glass between the leaf and the background, which detracts for me a bit. Light is nice though.
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