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Cher Laurent: Comment ta le vous? Wow!! A most impressive, elegant, beautiful, extremely sharp image with a very, very unique and different treatment of DOF. Color and contrast are just mouth-watering, craving to hold this exquisiteness in one's hand. This should definitely belong to Editors' Picks, by a long stretch. Otherwise, in a top-quality gallery. Humbly though, it will in the meantime, go into my favorites. Best regards. DG

Daniel,Thank you for the so kind appreciation.I had written an answer earlier but it obviously got lost when I applied the ''add comment'' button,unless I attached it to the wrong image.In any case,nature and flowers are not my main interest but when I do shoot ,I try to keep in mind the lessons I learnt from studying the work of my friends Radu Karp and Gregory&Verena Sava,flower masters in my book.Here,I put the finishing touches with the use of the saturation curve of my now primitive PP program to desaturate the base and keep the highlights on the flower.I am glad you like enough to keep in your Favorites folder.Merci et salutations amicales-Laurent