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Still experimenting. Have removed the stroke (border) from the previous

post to gauge the reponse..

Thank you

I don't think I commented on your previous version, but I'd have to agree; borders and some of the other presentation edits, for me, lie more with presentation in final viewing. I'd minimize that, for evaluating the overall picture. There would probably have to be a separate form of evaluation for framed photos or presentation in web design or something.

That said, overall, I felt this was a good photo. Good use of depth of field to isolate the subject. Raindrops are always nice; no trouble with specular highlights here; although, it might help if you also had a version with some more direct lighting. As with other improvement suggestions, I find that it's not the individual photo I see in critique, but the possibilities I see for other photos of the same subject that come to my mind.

I'd say also that the water droplets contribute to scale; too often in flower photos we see that it's hard to determine how large the flower is; that's satisfactory here.

I guess maybe another possibility would be to carry a cloth backdrop into the field that you could set up to isolate the subject; that way you would not have to rely on depth of field blur (bokeh) to exclude a more complicated background.

Thank you for the feedback.

Cheers,

Luke