Red Flower in my garden

Excellent color and use of light. The dof works very well, too. Beautiful image!

This is one of the most photographed flower in the world but you have created a beautiful atmosphere and environment that make a unique photo. Bravo|
Take care.

Thank you all. Gigi, it's one of my favorites. I love the color and the flow.

Sweet . . .
Elizabeth this is stunning, should be framed and on the wall.

Thank you, MIke. I'm sure I told you, I taught math in Douglasville, GA.

Such a stunning and beautiful flower! Love the rich red color and the interesting design of this flower. Nice comp but my thoughts would be to crop in some from the top and left to get rid of some of the empty space and give more attention to the flower.

Beautiful image with nice spotlighting on the flower and a nice contrasting bg, Elizabeth.

Superbly photographed, Elizabeth ! Wonderful contrasty lighting and an excellent composition in my view - I personally like to see space around a flower such as this. Would reduce the scale of the signature though !

I use LR and I've tried so many signatures. I will look into that, does anyone know of a program to make nice signatures? It made me laugh, someone else told me once "nice photo, but the signature is in the way, get rid of it"

With the environment you captured Elizabeth, this is over the top exceptional in my opinion. Superb work and vision.
Bob

Elizabeth : if you use a Mac there is Border FX - a plug in which works with Aperture ( they are at http://www.iborderfx.com ) I don't bother with the copyright function myself but I can see that you can select varied fonts and font sizes quite easily. The programme, of course, mainly does borders.

Don't think they produce anything for Windows but there must be something similar for that platform. I would Google photograpic borders and you might come across something.

Elizabeth: Even though hibiscus is a common subject I often find it difficult to come up with a pleasing comp encompassing all the flower. This works for me really well. Love the dynamics of the BG and the lighting on the bloom. Very well done.>=))>

Hi Elizabeth Beautiful and stunning color. with a Bg that adds to the mood of the scene
Albert Darmo

Quite a statement!! The colors, comp are highlighted by the lighting! Beautifully done...