Bitter Sweet

love both.. the bitter and sweeter.. very cool image

beautiful work Lee…

lovely image…

Very nice manipulation, cool concept :)

very conceptual which i love, love it :D

So hot!!!!! So cool!!!! Instant fave!

That looks awesome!

really cool idea – love it :)

great image, i like the thorns on the rose.

that is excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW!! Lee, these shots are great. Very creative and I love the intense colour! Well done! :D

How clever are you Girl…... Love you imagination,
how’s the sticky fingers from the superglue, or is that photoshop,or do you have strange roses down your way. Well done
xkc

how on earth did ya get the thorns on the rose….i spent all day in the yard with crazy glue and all that has thorns now is my fingers…grin

a rose between .. more than 2 thorns… ! love it. wonderfully original image of a popular flower.

Great image Lee!

Thank you so much everyone

This is straight out of the camera.. no photoshop and believe it not, water was the main adhesive! I tried stick glue, but that failed and I remembered when I was little I used to stick them on me by licking them (not the pointy side!) We have a blackish table so that proved uesful for a slight reflection.. And a 50mm 1.8 Lens for the dof!

That’s about it really! :) Thanks again! Glad you enjoyed viewing!

Amazing what a mother can find to do with spit :) What a fabulous idea, Lee, this is fantastic!

LOL! Hey Mel! Yep! Good old spit!

Even with it’s thorns on the petals, it’s a beautiful rose!! don’t want to get to close to smell it though!!
Amazing… spit!! I thought it was done in photoshop… clever you… Hope you’ve got lots of bandaids!

Lee spit for glueing thorns is fab!! must say, great shot again…

This is stunning Lee. Really lovely. The simplicity of the capture is wonderful to hear as well. Well done you.

Ouch!

That’s different! Excellent work and idea…

This is amazing!!!!

oh mi god! it’s a ‘real’ shot?! I was thinking, I really must brush up my photoshop-there are some amazing people out there-all the same-to create this real prob works even better. So awesome. well done-this rocks

Impresssive work Lee – love your point of focus and the idea is way cool… love the edge this image is sitting on… and beatifully presented here! Great work!

wicked idea x

Hi Lee, wonderful concept…and lovely work..wish I’d thought of it;)

thanks Lee for the detail on how you took pic, I find that very interesting!

Nice idea and very effective!

wow cool!

Wow! Thanks for explaining how you did it! Im always so curious with great shots :)

This is absolutely Bitter and Sweet…great photo!

Exceptional image. I would have given up after ruining the first 10 roses!

The yn and the yang of it. Nice fusion of polarity

Wonderful concept

Wow beautiful

OOOOOOH. I LIKE THIS

Great concept I think you are very talented! Your portfolio is sensational.
M:>:>

love your stuff and everyone elses , i joined bubble but im afaid im out of my league here until i get my new cannon digital and i have no photo shop so i might just go crawl back into my shell i think.i have only been using a computer for a year and am completely self taught ,but i have to say i had no idea things were this advanced .well done to all.my friends are all very supportive of me ,but now i know they were just being nice after seeing the quality of work here

A well-realised concept… very effective

great concept and well executed

awesome shot…love it!

very impressive

This is great – I love that you found young thorns to tone in with the colour of the rose. I’d forgotten all about sticking rose thorns on my nose with saliva – that was an awfully long time ago.

Every rose has its thorn…very ingenious and gives a whole new meaning to “cut and paste”

Brilliant shot, very well done

great shot

Nice!!!

David.

Straight out of the camera! That’s incredible!

That is fantasic, a brilliant image.

Exquisite work, perfect!

Wow what a powerful image love it, just love it xxx

Super manipulation ,great idea.

Yes I Love It!!!!!!!!!!

Very clever, I really like this!

Very creative, I love that you didn’t enchance it or anything. You just put your mind into it. Fantastic color, great job!

ooooh I missed this one somehow..I absofreakinglutely love it!!! Beauty among the thorns!! Very creative!!

Absolutely wonderful image…very creative. I can’t imagine trying to smell it without getting my face pricked somehow..hehe.

great one, love it!

this is fantastic well done

nice shot

Wonderful, this one speaks for love. Oh so beautiful and tempting, but still so hurting and dangerous..
Love this one.

Great, what a fabulous idea! Love it!

OH, JUST LIKE LOVE ITSELF OR LIFE TOO…....

Whoa! Neat!

OMG I love It Im sooo favouriting this!

very out of the box. and pretty well done :)

This is great

Lol, I love it!

Brilliant! Love the picture’s irony (and the fact that it’s pretty cool to look at, too)

This is awesome…..Nice job. My daughter loves pink roses, but is allergic to roses…this would be a good one for her…LOL

chido!! (cool! in mexican slang he he!) that just came out from my mouth when I saw your work!! keep going!

This must’ve been a pain of a job. All worth it in the end. Wonderfully creative.

ohh i like this one (:

excellent!!

Don’t know why I never commented on this one as I love these kinds of images. It is wicked, surprising and unexpected, and a wonderful job of processing and manipulation. I also like the way you used the vertical crop which makes it even more unique… awesome work, awesome imagination, Lee!

Great image! I was just getting ready to comment on what a great photoshop manipulation this was when I read that you physically stuck the thorns on the rose! and that’s what makes this even more impressive the fact that it is not photoshopped! Love it!

Awesome

I personally have never seen this. Most Original !!!!!
And that is not easy to do. Excellent work.

Amazing. Love it.

Stunning work

this is brilliant! amazing work

That’s a one off , have never seen that before . Can I have a dozen for an ex of mine please. It is one off work .

very beautiful piece : )

very good

SO GOOD

I love your work, this shot is awesome!

WOW! This is gorgeous.

Great work.

Nicely captured and what a brilliant idea!

Beautiful, creative

lovez it!

wow!

omg what a great concept! awesome

Stunning, what a great concept through to outcome image!

very cool shot!

great comp

Fab

Very creative concept,
very well executed

the simplicity and concept here work very well. I heard an interesting comment the other day about avoiding things in your life that hurt you. A lot of people do it, but would you not touch or admire a rose again if you pricked by it, sometimes the most beautiful things in the world can hurt us, but it does not mean we should avoid them, we should try and embrace them – anyway bit of a long winded story there but this picture bought this thought to my mind so i thought i would share it…. great work!!

terrific concept, expertly created

Very cool image!

great concept !

Amazing…I love the shallow dof and the title fits it perfectly.

Im in shock at the beauty in this photo! Such creativity! :)