Hope this does well, tried to get away from the railroad shot, though I had one in backup. Hope this wasn't the wrong choice. I like the softness of the shot.
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nice effort to try a macro on this challenge - thee issue i see is the noise levels in the foreground, likely due to the shallow DOF - smoothing this out using noise reduction may have helped