dpullum wrote:
My feeling is that in the "natural" one [#2] that I look and quickly say aaaa ya, so what leaves that I have seen all my life.
With the first, color and texture added, the colors funnel my eye/mind into the center where i better see the colors and texture of the "natural" leaf structure and color. The #1 focuses my mind/eye on the subtleties of the leaf I now more that if just looking at #2..
Thanks dpullum for your thoughts and comments, they have interest for me. RBorud