Fluidr / Saffron Fire by Pixelated Sky

Crocus.
Spring came to my garden yesterday and the crocus were out in the sun and still in relatively good shape (before the rain today). So a couple of too-quick shots and then a play with the processing.
Lovely flowers with dramatic colour. Hope you enjoy it anyway and thanks for looking :)
[MBS: Hand-held in daylight. Processed and cropped in LR, mainly for colour drama. Background masked in PS; canvas enlarged and rotated to sweeten the symmetry. Minor mangle in Topaz Detail. Metadata magic in iMatch and published direct from LR to Flickr: my usual workflow ;)]

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