Close-up of camellia bud and leaf seemed to me to closely resemble the classic profile of a Native American in Plains regalia.
Lousy light (overcast/rain) necessitated use of ultra-noisy high ISO setting and extra-aggressive noise reduction = more blur.
-Tripod, timer
-Manual mode
-FL 436mm (35mm EQ) plus close-up lens
-Clone out stray dirt specks and reflections
-A little local burning to tone-down bright spots
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Hue/Saturation layer to adjust green slightly
-Crop a little from bottom
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 /= 298KB
Resized original:
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