^^^ Gorgeous, man!
Most folks like myself spend big money on lenses to get rid of flare or ghosting, and some people use the lens flare filter judiciously on their edits.
It makes it look "blingy"
Actually I wanted to get rid of it but I didn't make a separate layer for it so I had to live with it. Now it looks really tacky, I should make it again without the lens flare.
Took this in St. Thomas. This was my first attempt using the Macro feature:
Here's a couple old ones (izzat ok?) that I noticed on my hard drive.
I've probably shared 'em before, but it's been a while, and I'm kinda proud of them,
taken from spectator areas (well, not the John K. one) with a late 60's Pentax.
You know, when you didn't know how your shots were turning out until you got home and got them developed...