Fushias again

I've rescanned this photo - the darkness of the first was due to my

scanner as it didn't represent accurately the photo that I had taken.

Is this an improvement?

Certainly better. It's really not too sharp though, is it?

 

But I think the more basic problem is the light. If all you are going to do is reproduce the shape of a fuchsia blossom, you will never achieve anything beyond thousands of mediocre plant book illustrations. You really have to aim to "draw with light" on the flower. (IMHO) I quite liked your Lock Fyne (well, not too sure...) - just look at it again, and imagine it photographed on a cotton-wool sky day, with no angled light beams...

 

 

Incidentally, it's easy to spell this flower if you remember it's named after Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist. Perhaps not too difficult to imagine why the pronunciation got changed to this odd "phew-sha" thing...

Much better, although it shows the shot up as not being sharp... Also I find the other pair of out of focus flowers in the top left corner very distracting.

Thanks for your tip on how to remember to spell fuchsias Brian. Incidently, a 'lock' is something you attach to a door, or find in a canal. A 'Loch' is how you spell the term that refers to a body of water.