This idea sort of just popped into my head. I've had the little lady since 2005 from my trip to Peru. She's about one inch tall, and was part of a tiny pin that included a gent with a hat, and his arm hooked through hers. But he'd lost his hat and just looked weird without it. Besides, I'd envisioned just the girl skipping through a field of flowers.
For the field, I had originally wanted to use a pincushion, but there wasn't one around and I just didn't have the time or energy to go buy one. So it became a scavenger hunt for something to stick pins in. I remembered I had a red squeeze ball, and hunted around for that until I remembered that one of my foster kittens (Lola if I remember correctly) decided to see what was in the center. Fortunately, my sweetie also had one, but it was blue. Would a blue ground work? Oh sure, why not.
Then it was just a matter of sticking pins into the ball in a pleasing way, and figuring out how to position the girl. Her left arm was still hooked from where she was arm-in-arm with the boy, so I decided to use that to my advantage by filling her arm with "flowers", and used another pin through the back of those (which were all taped together) to attach her to the ball. From there came the idea to give her the appearance of skipping or jumping through the field as she picked her flowers.
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This is one of my top ten images. Great imagination and creativity. The different pin colours give the image a nice balance, and you've captured the title perfectly. The lighting of the face under the hat is spot on. It there is anything critical to say, it's that the two red pins bottom left are in the plane of focus and my eye keeps getting drawn to them. I think it would be perfectly legitimate in advanced editing to blur these two out a bit so that they are not so much of a draw. That said, it still a great shot.
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Has the makings of a good picture , for me the focal point needs to be worked on - good try and the colours are great
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