awwwwe!! So sweet!!

Great shot and detail! can you share the type of macro lens you use?

This right here wow, just simply amazing good thing I don't compete in the macro area yet. haha this photo would have me beat for years.

beatiful

beautiful

Excellent macro =)

And I thought I was good at shooting bugs............. how we s'posed to top this, it is simply awesome.

Clever GL!

Wow, Perfect. very creative

Well spotted! GL!

btw, you all HAVE to look at the eyes in high res before you vote. Sharp as a tack!

Daaaaaaaaam....

I'm just going to put my macro lens away now...

I seriously need to pick your brain. Well done and definitely my favorite.... so far

Reckon I know who this is, you dragonfly fanatic!

This is a gorgeous shot and will be hard to top.

Wow...look at those bug eyes!!!! Amazingly Great shot.

Wow!!!

Dang it Author!!! I thought i had a good one. You could have waited a day or so to drop the hammer.
Wonderful shot

Perfectly done! Don't think I'll bother with this contest...you win!

Holy cow....nice shot

daaaaaammmmmnnnn! Way to start this contest! Well done author, I hope we see some other GREAT images like this...

Looks like a volcano, IMO. Very nice shot !

I see your point, and if this is the case, I stand corrected.

agree with the statement above me..LOL!

I certainly agree with what you and Oscar have said... except for.... WATER DROPLETS!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! Shots of water droplets on flowers should be banned by the Geneva Conventions! Violators should be marched through the streets to be pelted by crowds throwing cream pies! After their parade, they should be staked out on the floor of Death Valley in August, force fed rabid Gerbils and made to watch a continuous loop of "Plan 9 from Outer Space!" After they die, their families should be forced to have a large sign in their yard for perpetuity declaring that their loved ones' fate was due to "repetitive overuse of trite stereotypes!"

I'm hearing you Ade, crowds are not for me ... now if they had a single chair up on top of the red thingy (tech term for the rear of the boat) - that would be where to find me

Ade - to quote the theme ""Luxury" means different things to different people throughout the world!" - how do we know this young man doesn't come from the middle of the desert . What we take for granted may be a luxury for others. While not necessarily 'artistic' IMO it still meets the theme

Good thinking 99

Very nice entry

Nice - I feel the yellow flower could have been a little sharper. Are they your slippers author?

I don't think there's much left that hasn't been done before - so I guess that makes us all a little boring and repetitive. Oscar Wilde said that Life imitates art. Considering history repeats itself - we are likely to come across a few sunset pictures ... and God forbid, water droplets

Absolutely beautiful!

Great job!

Looks like it made a rose pedal pattern. Cool GL

sorry author, I must be missing the point of this......... what is luxury about it?

to each his own, as the theme says!

you are absolutely right author, I hate crowds, I love people, but not all in the same place at the same time, this really is not my idea of fun. I am sure to some it is a wonderful way of taking a vacation.......... and I am very glad you had fun

Really well done but unoriginal. Well, who cares? The photograph's still amazing and lighting is right on. I can never get enough of these anyways. GL

Great shot, just what I could do with..get away from the snow!

Beautiful..perfect shot!

Great idea!

I'm with you there Ted.............. two weeks trapped on board a ship with this lot would drive me nuts...............

I can see how some consider this luxury, but I just see overcrowding

To the left, to the left, to the left!

Great

You cropped out the vanishing point

Great clarity, good luck

I agree with everything you said Adam, EXCEPT... WATER DROPLETS!!!!!!! AAARRRGGGGHHHH. Anytime there is a theme where flowers are on-topic, water droplets should be BANNED. Violators should be forced to walk barefoot through honey ending up in African Army Ant hills!!!! After the soles of their feet have been eaten off by the ants, they should be dragged by pygmy hippos into a giant vat of red wine vinegar, with hyperactive 4th graders throwing wet kittens at them the whole way. Then, AND ONLY THEN, would they be eligible to show another photo of a water droplet - AFTER ten years probation!

It may be repetitive but I think it's far from boring bartoszwozniak. Just because we see something repeatedly doesn't mean that it's bad, did you think this was boring the first time you saw it? I've seen this before too but I've also seen 10,000,000 shots of refracted water droplets, and countless sunsets over the ocean but if it's done well than it doesn't matter how many I've seen before it. Yes originality is nice, and needed but can you honestly say you've never seen a photo you liked and reproduced it later? That's all the author has done here, and they did it well in my opinion.

I like it, but unfortunately I have seen this photograph too many times .

Gets a little bit boring and repetitive. In my opinion, we need some more originality.

Sorry author.

GL!

LOL....Having 4 boys of my own....this I can relate too!!! makes me smile.

Nice job in making something so common so artistic. GL!