When A Good Photo Goes Bad

I went out to the Garden to take pictures of the lotus blossoms.  I forgot my 70-300 mm telephoto, so I couldn't really get the nice blossoms far away.

Here's one:

The problem with this is that the blossom is nice but the image is too soft.  I think the focus was on a leaf that was slightly in front of it.  So what do you do with an image that is lovely, but not technically lovely?

That's when the awesome photoshop filters come in....

It's a light painting!  See can't tell it is blurry in this image...

This is the watercolor filter.  It's a little on the dark side but still...it's a nice effect.