Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by bvy:
Great idea and dramatic lighting. Not sure about the center framing.

Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by fitz3000:
nice capture but I don't like the smaller image size

Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by fldave:
I like this image, might have used a square crop and still had plenty of black bg.

Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by dustingooding:
Meets Challenge: 3 of 3.
Technical: 2 of 3. Something about those leaves in the background distract me, and I'd prefer it was a closer crop so I can see more detail.
Emotion: 2 of 3. I'm reminded of high school when the girls would hang roses upside down to save them, and of my wedding where my wife had her bouquet preserved. Those were good times, so thanks for reminding me of them.
Awe: 0 of 1.

Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by vtruan:
A closer crop would have made this much better.

Old Rose
by acg83

Comment by ASTONishing:
The exposure is beautiful! The placement within the fram not so much. It needs to be more to one side.

Bike lights!
by acg83

Comment by acg83:
Thanks for the constructive comments. I had about 12 different shots to choose from and I think taking the risk of having the out of focus bit in the foreground didn't pay off this time.

Bike lights!
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Comment by glad2badad:
If the whole comp could have looked like the top and middle-back areas this would really jump out for me. I'm not really liking the large areas of blurred light. JMO of course. Good luck in the challenge.

Bike lights!
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Comment by Jaded_Housewife:
*not voting as I'm in this challenge-just commenting since I've seen requests for comments in the challenge thread*

Nice. I like the colors here too. The red white and black that is. I think that the yellow at the bottom takes away from the beauty of the rest of the shot. great job capturing and editing this though.

HTH

Bike lights!
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Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Now, that is a cool abstract! You should not have said what it is though.