Macro Setting
Curves to darken and lessen contrast
Stamp to even out background bottom left and top right
Burn & desat right side bg, dodge left & top
Sharpen and dodge on top of stamen
Stamp out 6th bulb
Neat image
Life is fleeting and fragile. These flowers opitimize this. When I returned the next day to attempt to get a slightly better focus on the foreground, all the old flowers had fallen off and blown away.
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very neat .. but I think it would have been nicer to have the rest of the flower in focus .. but like me you are probably limited by your equipment (7)