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Edit Challenge #1: Echinacea with Bumblebees

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Andrea B.:
What would you do when editing this photo shot into the stems of an Echinacea forest ?
Crop? HDR? Soften the details? Add a glowy overlay?
Make it a black & white? Or sepia-toned?
Emphasize the stems? the flowers? the bees?
Be wild, be cautious, be whatever with your edits as long as you are having fun.

Download the raw, then convert/edit it in your favorite converter/editor
and post it to this thread.
Or you may postprocess it if you are so inclined.  ;D ;D ;D
In a week or so, I will look through the submissions and pick a "Winner".

But note that Winners may be picked on a whim - or a coin toss - and winning means nothing except the joy of being the next person to provide us all with a raw file to edit for the next Edit Challenge. It is a lot of fun to see the different ways folks edit and the different thoughts they have about how a photo should look.

Part of the challenge with this photo is that the colour needs to be corrected.
Look up Echinacea purpurea to get an idea of its colours.
The bumblebee has yellow & orange bands.
DROPBOX LINK:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxwc1szbsb1d1j6/echinaceaPurpurea_visSun_20150804charlotteRhoadesSwhME_38099.nef?dl=0

Here is a bit of help for the Echinacea colours. This variety is not too saturated for the petal colour.

Akira:
Here's a quick take of mine.  Please download the file to view in the originally posted size.

Michael Erlewine:
Quick take.

Jakov Minić:
this is my acid/funky version  8)

Frank Fremerey:
Great we do it here too!

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