Wild quince in Dec. DSC03683aw

This is lovely, especially the way the blossoms pop out from the background. I also like the way most of the branches *almost* disappear into the black background, and the way a few of the branches  reach bravely into the light.  And although I do like the fact that the background shows a bit of welcome texture and isn't uniformly black (allowing those wonderful shadows to appear), it's disappointing to see the obvious cloning artifacts in that portion of the picture. :-(  Still, those artifacts are easily remedied, and I enjoyed viewing this a great deal.

Elizabeth,

Thanks for your detailed comment. You have a good eye to have noticed the cloning- it looked much worse before that :)  Usually I don't like light on bg, prefer total black, but in this case, it just didn't work. The branches were too big to get the back board far enough away not to pick up the light. Oh, well.