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Water lily and pink petunias

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Here are two different compositions of the same lily in the pond in the Earnley Concourse gardens. This year they were growing pink Petunias and I wanted to include them in the image. In the upper picture I have made the lily's reflection a part of the composition; in the lower (a different photograph, not a cropping of the other) I have used the crinkly edge of the leaf in the lower left to counterbalance the flowers. Which composition do you prefer?

Upper image: Olympus OM4Ti Zuiko 135mm macro lens. Exposure: spot reading of lily at f8. Film: Provia 100F

Lower image: Olympus OM4Ti Zuiko 135mm macro lens. Exposure: spot reading of lily at f11. Film: Provia 100F

This image is from a series taken during "Photographing Nature at the Earnley Concourse" in 2001
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