The Lonely Petal

I did extensive focus stacking today with a tulip. Notice that I am posting a lily leaf. That tells you the massive fail with the tulip!
Good friends are visiting so only sporadic commenting til tomorrow night or Monday. Many thanks for you kind comments on my buds from yesterday.

[Elytra]

Gorgeous, it's like a painting.

[Annie D]

enjoy the time with your friends :)
Can sympathise about time spent faffing only to fail lol

[Annie D]

oh - and this is quite beautiful

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome picture.

[Barb]

This is so lovely, Taffy. Fav

[Jules Hoogstra-Anderson]

Lovely, the soft colours give it a romantic feel.

[Nick]

Very pretty.

[Joe III]

Very thoughtfully composed and processed, The textures elevate it to a Fav!

[Pam Knowler]

Love this delicate processing Taffy! Have a lovely time with your friends!

[Newbank Lass]

Just gorgeous!

[Nicole]

This is fabulous! Love the textures!

[Debs Stott]

Very artistic Taffy.

[Jocasta]

Gorgeous textures.

[Margaret Obey]

Love the softness of the image

[Beryl Lloyd]

Oh so wispily, love the softness and such a painterly effect -fav

[Tracy]

Beautiful textures and tones.

[sally agnew]

A beautiful ethereal image :)

[Leon Buijs]

Lovely soft tones, very abstract image

[Janet B.]

A beautiful work of art!

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Beautiful FAV!

[PTP: Past their Prime]

Nice abstract. What went wrong with the focus stacking?
@snaggy

[Clare Gadsby]

Kind of melancholy feel to this - in a good way

[Louis A. Sousa]

Great painterly processing. It looks like linen.

[Martina]

Beautiful!!!fav

[Domenico Dodaro]

Excellent composition and tones!

[gloria jones]

Elegant, artful image

[Joyce]

Beautiful capture and processing Taffy. Fav

[Rosie Kerr]

Very lovely... the textures make it look like a painting on linen. Enjoy your friends!

[Taffy]

@pasttheirprime I couldn't get a section to actually focus...it was strange as there is one photo with it perfectly in focus, but when I do the stack command, the section is blurry.

[Walks @ 7]

Dreamy!

[Loopy-Lou]

Beautiful capture and editing

[Disha Parekh]

Beautiful shot and processing! Fav.

[maree_sanderson]

love the processing...have fun with your friends!

[Jerri]

beautiful art again....think i'll get out my prismacolors! i don't know what the heck focus stacking is! you just take on and learn so much! so impressed. are you a professor? i notice you say in your profile "during the academic year...."

[Diana Moss]

Simply beautiful

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Gorgeous

[Islandgirl]

Very painterly, nice processing Taffy!

[Rachel]

Beautiful and ethereal.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Very beautiful. Fav!

[Lois]

Beautiful!

[Jane Pittenger]

You made beautiful art nonetheless...what happened with your focus stacking that it didn't work out?

[Tony]

Lovely form and texture.

[Taffy]

@jgpittenger Thanks for your kind comment on this one. HEre's what happened with stacking - I couldn't get a section to actually focus...it was strange as there is one photo with it perfectly in focus, but when I do the stack command, the section is blurry. I'm thinking it might be the lighting as much as anything. I tried again today and it was better without so much light on it. My best shot, though, was using f/32 and a 3 second exposure, with ISO at low (I think about 35).

[Paula W]

Sorry I couldn't help but smile when I read your commentary. However you have posted a really beautiful image, the colours and textures work so well together.

[Richard Hickey]

Congratulations on making the Trending Page. Well deserved.

[Steve Angell]

Very nice.

[Ukandie!]

Very elegant! Love the use of texture, I seem to have come to a grinding halt when it comes to PS and Topaz textures!

[Simply Amanda]

So delicate...Love the edit.