Jim Carlock wrote:

Wow. For some reason I thought you lived in California here
in the states. I see the ozdebate now, usually snip the email
addresses out of posts. If Kris did not say Queensland, the
Qld. meant nothing.

A lot of your pictures end up getting the background colors
taken out and the background gets converted to black. For
the "Frangipani-9661" picture, do I see a smear or a smudge
there?

I don't replace the backgrounds, I use a wide open aperture, take photos
late in the afternoon and chose flowers that have dark background foliage.
If you lighten one of my photos up, you will see the foliage. The "smudge"
you see is the leaves of the frangipani.

Thank you for ALL your beautiful photos.

Thank you for the comment.