At some point you might see my current Still Life Challenge entry. These are the same three blacked susans from that. Two just went to hell in a hand basket and one kept on going.
Post: Camera Raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Crop. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Sharpen. Resize. Sharpen.
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The concept might not be very unusual, and imho it might be a bit of a stretch for meeting the challenge, but beautiful, beautiful, beautiful PERFECT lighting.