Congratulations Sie! A fabulous shot and a brilliant title. A deserved winner!
I voted for
wavemachine's 'Multicoloured Tones'. A simple idea but bang on theme and very very creative ( I even tried it myself
). As a last minute entry I was very impressed. Sometimes the best ones are the ones you spend less time thinking about. Great shot!
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Ogri1st's 'Flowers': Nice effective shot. Love the simplicity of it and the white background. Two of the flowers are in focus sligtly more than the other two. But on the whole, a beautiful image. This was in my top 4.
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wavemachine's 'Multicoloured Tones': see above
Thank you to
GUY1970, kerbside, and
Siesmith for your votes. Very much appreciated. I had an idea for coloured pencils but Jeff beat me to it
(great shot btw), and then I saw the pins on my kitchen noticeboard and thought I'd do a macro with shallow dof.
My other favourites were
pea24 (loved the subject and angle),
DD (excellent shot, really looked professional, the cream background wasnt a distraction at all, I actually thought it complemented the colours - well done!)
Thanks also to everyone for their nice comments above and to dave's (wavemachine) crit - yes, I agree, maybe a touch too dark.