Very little post shot adustments. Cropped and sharpened slightly. I added some purple to the tip of the peppermint stick to make it look hollow like a peppermint straw.
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I'm assuming the connection here is lemon and sugar. This certainly has creativity and it's different so I like it for that. The composition is good and I like the diagonal of the 'straw' into the lemon. I dont know if you tried a border then cropped it out or what, but there is a small thin black line at the very top of the image that seems to stand out and look a little odd. The image also looks underexposed and could have used a levels adjustment to increase the brightness.