The weather was good so I was taking lots of shots around UNC campus, when I started playing with a water basin. There were a few leaves held up by surface tension, and I noticed that the sky and the trees made a colourful reflection, so I placed one of the leaves so that there would be as blue a backdrop as possible (blue being my favourite colour), and here it is.
Only cropped to 7:5 dimensions and adjusted levels slightly.
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Very pretty - particularly the capture of the surface tension shapes. For me I find the bright light spots too strong in comparison with the muted colours of the leaf. I think they'd be OK if the leaf still had some more of it's autumn bright colours though I appreciate that the mood of the image would then be different. Basically I think the background is just too dynamic for the muted beauty of the faded leaf.
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