Forget-me-nots

These little beauties are in my garden.

What do people think about B+W and selective colouring them?

I will catch up with all your wonderful work hopefully on sunday. I am in London all day tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone who has made such wonderful comments about my work in the last 2 weeks, I can't believe I've made the PP 4 times and the Top 20 once. You are all wonderful, and I want to buy you all a pint!!

[Livia]

These little blue flowers are pretty! Beautifully captured. 8) Selective coloring sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I think it works best when it's not actively screaming "LOOK AT ME! I'M SELECTIVELY COLORED!" 8D

[Leslie]

Lovely shot - I don't think selective coloring would make it better. Your dof and the marvelous blue do enough to draw attention. I agree with Liva - too much in this particular instance.

[joseph levy]

stunning focus!

[Disha Parekh]

I love the green background so I wouldn't selectively colour. And these are beautiful!

[Louise]

I like it best as it is, great colour and focus!

[Fanny Brogden]

I'll accept a pint!! So right, these are so pretty in their own right, and charming in their simplicity..........

[Jennie Cole]

My favourite flower and lovely dof here. Mine's a tomato juice with worcester sauce, so a cheap round;)

[Penny Milner]

That is just so pretty- fave

[Andreas]

I'll grab a pint. Lovely dof, colours and focus. Another Fav.

[Achilleos]

Excellent focus the flowers.. Lovely shot..

[Robyn]

So pretty!

[ladyjane]

Beautiful, Sean! The colour and clarity are excellent. Fav.

[Megsy]

WOW gorgeous

[Sharon Lee]

I like this the way it is... But why not play with the image and see what you come up with

[Lisa]

Beautiful colour composition Sean, love it! :)

[Carolyn White]

Gorgeous colors!!!

[Dana]

For me the green background here really adds to and makes this shot for me. I think black and white or selective colour may loose the impact. I love this just as it is.

[Tracy]

beautiful dof :)

[Zuzana]

I love this the way it is! They are so beautiful. I have few in our yard too. :-)

[Sybil Freeman]

color is perfect .... it is always fun to play around though... would be interesting to see... looks great to me though

[Caryn]

I love the green, so I vote to keep it as is. Very pretty.

[MG Perkins]

I agree with the others - selective color works really well at times but I think in this case all the colors are great and I think the green background really makes the blue flowers stand out.

[Megan Richardson]

they're lovely, I'd never noticed them growing symmetrically along a stem in pairs like this
I think selective colour is something to be used very judiciously and seldom - these are lovely just like this

[Danielle Greenwood]

This is just divine, the blue is exquisite and the focus perfect!

[Maria Masotto]

bellissima!

[Reva]

Lovely simple beautiful composition, and I agree with the above posters that the colours are a big part of what makes this shot so great. It can't hurt to play with selective colour (that's what I did for my shot today, lol, so I can't really be pointing fingers), but I think you'd find that full colour is more satisfying for this particular shot. Very pretty little flowers, those forget-me-nots are! Oh, and I'm not much of a beer drinker, so please make mine a big French roast coffee with lots of cream. :) All kidding aside, your work is highly deserving of such profuse popularity! Take a bow, sir!

[Lisa]

Congrats on the PP Sean! You are really rocking that Page at the moment! :O)

[Simon]

Great shot Sean

[Taephy]

This is beautiful.

[Alison Tomlin]

Very pretty and a great dof!

[Pat Knowles]

Well done on the PP Sean !

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

Gorgeous little flowers... I love the colours. :)

[Natalie]

Beautiful colours!!

[Tams]

Beautiful, those don't even look real they're so perfect!

[Teresa (pocketmouse)]

This is so sweet!! Awesome detail!

[Alex Bell]

Absolutely beautiful! One of my favourite flowers and you've captured them so well. I love the odd little pinky purply one at the end :)

[avinash punna]

Nice very nice!

[Gabrielle C]

Love this - so lovely, have to add to my favs :)

[Corinne]

I love love love !
Fav !