Nice and sentimental,Ashok. I tend to think cooler tonal ranges (instead of warmer) probably may go well considering the context and the message you wanted to convey.

Understood & thanks Ganesh, where I can upload the cooler tone for comparison?

Ashok, the one you E-mailed me.

I took liberty to process it to reduce the energy further to make it a bit more sadder to go with your title and description. Not necessarily more beautiful but more sadder.
I felt your processed (colder) image still have a little more energy.

Does this make sense to you?

May be BW? The yellow still seem to come in the way of the message.



The point is brightness/color temperature/contrast/colors/forms/shapes.. all play a huge role in conveying different emotions. I think we don't understand it well, lot to learn. The journey never stops..!!

I kept little life in the flower by keeping it warm so hope it can convey & your pp image (you are always welcome to rectify as it helps to improve & thanks for the same) leads to sadness which justifies the title but I wanted a little warmth of hope. Well thats my assertion please respond. BnW na- some how colour is better
I would like to bring your notice that, 'comment' section should come to the bottom of the page so that it easier to refer other comments & respond

If that is the intention then don't change a bit! You as an artist is always right. The idea of showing variations was to emphasise how sensitive our mind is to all these variations, not to settle on one of them.

On pushing the comment box to down, the present design helps if we don't want to read what others wrote and post our un-biased views (first) and then read what others have written.

Have to go through the learning curve & still I feel comment box would be better if it is at the bottom atleast for responding to the comments 'my two cents'

A fine frame, Ashok. I like the way you have presented it: glowing flower among the ruins of plant matter. Conveys a feeling of "down but not out". TFS.

Thanks Ramesh for appreciating the mood of the frame

Warmer for me . I am a die hard optimist.

Awesome work here. The frame, the elements everything is nice.
I liked the cooler edit more than this, it looks very nice.

The resulting image might and well depend on the mood you were in while editing.

Wondering how this would look in IR!!