There is one more excuse that gets missed. The old adage "Fish or cut bait." In our case Take pictures or Process them. (LR, PS, or whatever software you happen to use.)

Nice Bokeh.

Hi Mr. B, I concur, but I did not want to step on anyones toes. I know that by removing the leaf I probably crossed some lines here, but I wanted to illustrate how it looks after i done that. The phot...

Wow, very interesting.

The leaf is distracting. I would take it out.

Not bad for an abstract. I would have darkened little bit.

Nice picture.

None of the pix look natural to me. No 3, no point of interest.

Is this how it really looks? I think tha the HDR was way overdone. In the third picture, what is the point of interest?