Soham, not sure whether you understood my points about the structure earlier. Did you wanted to arrest the viewers mind on colors or flower (structure) ? I don't know the answer but I think it is an important aspect which needs some further analysis. How do we balance the both so that the dimension of color does not get diluted?

Simply somehow the color has to be given more weightage than the most attention grabbing section in the picture (here the edge of the petal). This picture is not an good example of the point I was talking about. It draws more attention to a structure- the edge of the petal and its curvature. The structure gave more than enough cues and you easily have recognized it as a flower. I would suggest to follow gestalt school on this matter. how we perceive color is different from how we recognize structures. These two processes are separate. Gestaltists say that your brain organizes structures based on several principles, such as fore-ground back-ground, laws of proximity, law of separation and most importantly conture. Hence we can play with these laws to break the structure down thus color on the other hand gets to reach the focus of attention among viewers. I can crop it so, thus the petal does not get recognized easily and then you will be caught by colors mainly. Will it work?

I feel very eager to share these laws thus we could make it or break it in order to give required weightage to the structure in a frame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_ps ... f_grouping

Initially I was wondering if the caption Sweet Valentine here basically representing a relation between the pink structure and the yellow color to express the relationship. It was building up quite strongly but your explanation in reply to Ganesh's reply suddenly caused a disconnect in my mind and raised a question if this image represents nature in any way. I really would fail to look at colors and understand colors by understanding laws of physics or spectral theories or the link that you provided. Neither would they provide me any reason to go back to nature again and again for years. For me the emotions of colors need to be deeply associated with nature. I had to be honest with you Soham . But I think there is a lot to learn from this journey you are taking to relate colors and structures. But do I wish to understand colors by laws of Physics ? It would be interesting but it would not put me back to nature. I suddenly remembered an orthopedic friend who while talking to people often feels he is talking to skeletons... .

I did not talk about physics anywhere. I would suggest you to ignore stuffs that are unimportant to you.

Soham , I can see your point in your comment and also can read the message very well in your suggestion. There are a couple of things here, this is a public forum and your image here is for public critique. In CNP we have thrived on making honest comments on images even when some of the comments are not to the liking of the image contributor. This is the only reason why CNP has grown to what it is today. If you think that some of the comments are not according to your likings and are not working for you, then probably it is better to learn how to ignore it than suggesting the viewer on what he or she should do. For an image contributor it might not be the best idea to suggest actions to viewers and other members of the forum. I am sincerely hoping the message is reaching you loud and clear my young friend .