Used to be a flower in another life...

Nice to see you 'distortin' again - nice ..

Ed said it reminded him of a pumpkin, too. Maybe I should have changed the color!!!

Lol - Ed and I use to be Pumpkens - in another life of course - (-; ..

Definately a pumpkin. No,do not change the colours. Very cool ps work!

I like this very much. Will you post the original so we can see the process? How did you do it? It looks so luminous, super!

Very interesting rendering technique.

Here's the original shot. I use many techniques in PS to get this effect. As always, many layers. I never seem to get the same result so the technique changes depending on the flower.

WOW... this is gorgeous... and powerful!

A number of techniques to get this effect. Comments welcome - thanks!

Good abstract.

Thanks, Brad and Chuck - these are fun to do.

Beautiful image. Best Regards

Thanks for visiting, Ali Khataw.

It's been awhile since we had one of these. I love every single one of them, and this is no exception.

now if she can just get a "candle glow" effect going from the inside.... :)

Post this one again near the end of October. Yes, my first thought was that of a pumpkin too. I love this color and the distortion, it is all quite pleasing to me.

I agree, these are fun to create. However, I need to learn how to do layers. Maybe someday...."maybe." Another of your great abstracts!

always in the learning mode.... Well done Kim...Any news on the contest?

Nicely done!

I LOVE your distorted flowers!! This almost has a fall feel to it ... with the great orange color! More, please!! :-)

Thanks for visiting, everyone. Joan, you definitely need to learn layers - it opens up a whole new world in PS!!! Lou Ann, I was hoping you would find this one. Dennis, the Award Banquet is today, but we didn't get a letter (all winners received a letter), so we know we didn't win anything! :( They will post the winners to the website this afternoon at 2:00 so you can go see what did win. It's at wildlife photo contest

Oh, so sorry, Kim! I know that you put a lot of time and energy into that contest. :-(

You are a winner with us, Kim... You and Ed, keep having fun and posting your work...

We're not too upset; there were a lot of REALLY great photographs that won. It was all about capturing a "moment in time" that was unique. We also found out a lot of the shots that won were staged. We pretty much shot nature as it was. I don't know if we'll want to do staged nature shots next time - it just doesn't seem quite right to me. We enjoyed doing the contest and likely will do it again in 2 years.

Awesome shot, especially after seeing what you started with! Love seeing all of your creative goodies:) Cole