A rose by any other name...

[rpcrowe]

It is unusual to be rained in here in San Diego County but, I got bored and started playing with some images. I thought that I saw an image in the center of a shot of a red rose. What do you think?

[JPS]

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

Richard, I'm sure Mr Shakespeare would have liked this picture and I'm sure that if Romeo had given it to Juliet she would have loved it.
I know nothing of taking pictures of flowers, so no advice from me; but it looks good and I'm sure,"smells as sweet as it looks".

Well done

[Ken Curtis]

Richard, I'm not sure what you meant by an image in the center of a shot of a red rose. Did you mean you saw a figure of some kind or did you mean image above is a cropped version of a larger red rose image?

In any case, it is certainly an eye-catching image. However, it would be much better image if the textures of the petal surfaces showed. Perhaps you have the image too bright or too saturated.

[Steve S]

A nice composition richard, but some severe clipping issues in several of the channels.