Thank you Sharon, Nico, and CJ. Sharon, you've got a good eye. I had underexposed it a bit in order to keep some detail in the petals, and then decided that desaturation worked better than brightening things.
--Mary Anne
Lovely, Mary Anne. Your use of DOF to isolate the flower closest to the camera and the resulting OOF area does lend lots of depth and interest to the photograph. Regards Nico