Adusted exposure, brightness and contrast in during processing raw processing, then rotated 15 degrees, cropped, adjusted levels, cloned out a couple of dust spots, (or some kind of white spots) on the fence and saved for web.
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Place: 81 out of 100 Avg (all users): 4.8492 Avg (commenters): 4.7143 Avg (participants): 4.7059 Avg (non-participants): 4.9063 Views since voting: 1237 Views during voting: 256 Votes: 179 Comments: 8 Favorites: 0
Camera Work/Technical: Very nice white balance choice, yielding great colors and strong tones. The bottom flower looks a little out of focus to me.
Lighting: The bottom flower is also just a bit overexposed. There are also some distraction hot spots on most of the thorns. Shooting at a different time of day might have helped this a bit.
Composition/Content: I like the flow you created with the angle of the vine. It serves well to pull the viewer's eye up and into the image. I think that the content is a bit lacking. While I fully understand your interpretation, it was apparently not what the voters were looking for.
My Opinion: I think that the voters had more of a messy liquid theme in mind. Even still, with a little sharper focus and a little less exposure, I think this capture would have finished much higher.
At first I didn't get it...then Googled it. Like the Poinsettia, "it exudes a sticky white sap from any cut surface"...But were's the cut surface? Nevermind, I wouldn't do that to my plant either. So, I put 2 and 2 together and appreciated your interpretation!
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