The initial image was photographed in a "make-shift" studio in my library. I was recuperating from hip surgery and was not very mobile. The initial image was a droplet of glycerin on the end of a torn leaf taken in front of an already-printed photograph of a dahlia. I did the post processing in Adobe Lightroom. Subsequently I used a Photoshop technique to distort the image into a partial "orb" and adding more pink background canvas.
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