I love how the worm appears to be staring right at me. The face is a little frightening to be honest.

For me, the most interesting part of this flower are the green and red buds. Miami, FL

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Hairs are standing up from fear. Backlit flower from the back. Low light in the front, Intense light in the back, and a slow shutter.

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden

Everglades National Park

Orange drop placed inside the petals of a white flower's wispy leaves.

Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 lens with extension tube.

Botanical garden in Gothenburg

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A beautiful purple orchid with more flowers arriving soon, shot with a white background.

Spring? Are you really here? I hope you can stay awhile. I think you are pretty awesome. - Love, Me

White flower with red drops blasted with green light.

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Such a welcome and unexpected visitor. I let him move wherever he wanted and occasionally he would stop for a few seconds. Here he is popping a wheelie.

This was a 3 day process. I used several different coloring and overlapped them to get this shot. At first, I felt like I polluted something beautiful. But the "ugly" result has a beauty all its own.

macro shots of water on dandelions

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I normally stay away from "modified" flowers but the painted on crystals intrigued me for some reason.

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This shot started with a head of decorative cabbage that was stuffed into a flower bouquet. I had to wait a few minutes for my placed blue drops to merge.

No lens flare, recoloring or other Photoshop effect used.

Very close up of a very bright orange flower.

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I strolled to a favourite and almost secluded place then just sat listening to nothing, it was beautiful