Painterly Bird of Paradise.

They are spectacular normally anyway but the background of shrubs, weeds! etc often is a distraction.

[Granagringa]

Your processing gives it a colored-pencil look to me. The shadows are well defined in this. Nice.

[Rob Z]

@granagringa You got it in one!! It was the "coloured pencil" filter on my editing program. And the background shrubs etc disappeared when I traced around the flower with the "edge finder" and then cut it out. Cheers