Yes, it was. I understand why you´d leave two leaves/seeds as a green live one and a grey decayed one, but I liked the united pattern of leaves very much which is why I did it like this.:-) Great comment! Thank you, Nick.
Was that a partial color removal Annemette? Or did the plant really looked this way? (I came to the idea of color removal reading your categories for this photo.)
Anyway, a very suggestive one, and if I guess the mood, it's about now and then, life and death. The life really seems to be washed out of that plant and so the question "Same?" pops in mind.
Not the same, one might say, but still there is so much similarity between the two states. Perhaps that similarity exists only in our minds but this existence is enough for posing the question.
From the technical point of view, there will be pressumably uncountable many ways to accomplisch this, and without wanting to say that yours isn't as expressive, my personal preference would be only two leaves, one green, the other grey. But then of course the change wouldn't be as visible as on your photo, since then we would have only start and end but nothing inbetween.
Good work which wins much through that soft feeling over the whole image.
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