Spent a few hours yesterday at a wildlife refuge looking for wildflowers. Rather peaceful as for most of the time I was the only human for miles around! This was growing down near the Occoquan Bay and I believe it to be a Thicket Bean. It looked really pretty to me amongst the grasses.
PP - converted from RAW, cut the right edge and moved it closer to the flower (merged in "if lighter" mode), cropped, decreased gamma and increased contrast, shifted hue a little to green (it was too yellow-green for my taste), added border, resized, sharpened.
I like the flower but the orangey grasses on the left are what especially works for me. I like how DOF plays with the different strands against the deep green of the BG. Another excellent shot in every way.
as a thumb this was something i really looked forward to opening ..
then .. WOW .. love the deep intense green and the way that flower stands out so beautifully against it . the stalks with their orangey tops contrast so well with the surrounding colours ... a brilliant image in every way .. :)
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