I didn't know.

It's nice but seems it needs something? Almost as if this is the background, and we want a frog or bird or something else to be the main object of the photo? I don't know but that's just my feel.

Ronald, I like this capture a lot. As for the DOF item it works just fine IMO. The center focus with surrounding edges being slightly softer can be viewed both positively and or negatively depending upon ones POV. I find it works OK here.
I guess the large dead leaf is the one item a bit distracting, but not a big negative. You could try a content aware on it for another look to see if it works.

I thought they were fish scales initially. I quite like it but I see Bob's point, something to break the pattern would probably make the image stronger still.

Thank you for the comments! I was hoping this would stand alone as an RGB abstract, but a good, fat frog would have made me happier I confess. I certainly thought about cloning out the dead pad, but that seemed to me to go a bit too far. Although I'm definitely not above SOME cloning, let me assure you.

Just a crazy thought....I'll bet, that if you totally blurred this photo, it would be a wonderful abstract of green and red.............

Love the pattern and the red and green color contrast is really nice. I might consider cropping a wee bit off the bottom to eliminate some of the out of focus leaves and at least part of the dead leaf, but just a suggestion, as this is really nice as is. Well done.

The late light really made the difference here Ronald, great 3D look.
One really has to see the LP, very nice!

This is a neat look at this repeating pattern of leaves and the details show off much better in the larger version. In my opinion, an image like this one needs something (or two or three somethings) that stands out as different from the pattern. You might be able to get that by moving the dead leaf in the lower right corner into one of the power points (intersections of the 1/3 lines) or if you could find a spot where a leaf was missing.

The contrasting colors do make an interesting abstract. While the patterns work great as is, I might try to select a section of this to enlarge. The many lilies are pretty busy, so a tighter view might retain the great detail, patterns and textures. I would avoid the dead leaf on the right, so maybe the center left. Nice find.

Interesting closed composition. It would be a great image to experiment with to create even more abstraction, like softening, or reducing the contrast, or ...

Interesting closed composition. It would be a great image to experiment with to create even more abstraction, like softening, or reducing the contrast, or ...

I like the whole RGB thing going on here. Red, Green, Blue, and they all work well together with the repeating patterns.

Wonderful patterns! I agree; the red contrasts nicely.

A wonderful arrangement of repeating shapes, Ronald. I also like the RBG colors. Rather than cloning out the dead pad have you considered just cropping it off? That would still leave you plenty of image to work with. Just a suggestion of course.

Ed