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This picture relies on perspective, depth of field and colour.

Luscious colour and unusual point of view all help to give this image some extra impact. Works for me.

This has a lovely painterly quality to it - I like the subtle tonings you've achieved.

I like, its all wrong for me in some ways (symmetry and POV) but it still works...the de-sat (if that is indeed what you have done) works nicely..nice one.

stubbsy wrote:painterly

I was gonna throw a dictionary at you Peter, but low and behold, that darn word exists...

Function: adjective
Date: circa 1586
1 : of, relating to, or typical of a painter : artistic <painterly attention to detail>
2 : suggestive or characteristic of a painting or of the art of painting <painterly photography>; especially : marked by an openness of form which is not linear and in which sharp outlines are lacking <painterly brushwork> <a painterly landscape>

Unusual macro which looks so 3D!

I am yearning to see that stem a little more however.

Everything has already been said....

Great stuff, it looks awesome for colours/3D-look/unusual POV

Thank you all for your kind comments. What you see above
is pretty much what the camera saw in RAW format. The
lens is a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO Macro, ISO- 100
Shutter Speed & Time Exposure 1/40 Sec. Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length was 190 mm and tripod. Sorry surenj, there
is no stem in either of the two pictures I took from the same
position. I think I was too close and I wanted a macro shot.

Ah a Sigma lens - that explains the lovely softness

Gerry - surely you'd know by now that my command of the language is superlative. I also think you'll find the expression is "lo and behold"