MISHA!!! I have played with it in both black and white and sepia, love your version in black and white, hmmmm wonder what it would look like soft in black and white or sepia, you guys are giving me all kinds of ideas... regardless what I wind up doing with it, I will probably only post one in the gallery though. Your color version would look much nicer soft Misha! wink-wink Drea OMG!!! What have you done here girl? Love your effects too, Geeze thinking now I need to make a collage of this flower! Your creative mind has taken this rose to limits where I knew it could go, but was clueless how to get it there. Now it is between Richard's version, Simon's second version and Drea's version. I can't decide which I like better... as for Misha's black and white I like the tones there too! And I love Marlene's crop! Wonders how Drea's version would look in black and white or sepia with Marlene's crop? LOL! This is just too much fun!!! Finished uploading today's shoot and ewwwww... looks like this one will be suffer the big delete. I guess that is the beauty of shooting digital eh? OK back to the rose... no worries, I have no intention of deleting this one! :) Brenda :)