Life Force

I'm going to put this here because it doesn't fit excactly elsewhere. In our second class, the teacher illustrated use of HDR in creating impressions of flowers. Focus stacking is another way impressions can be created; not literally photographs.

This would qualify under the "close-up" criterion here, and, perhaps, under the "artistic" criterion, and maybe under "flora" where if it grows, it goes ; but maybe not.

So anyway, this is a composite of several shots of a lily (I think) on a light box the teacher provided. I wanted it to indicate the light coming from within the flower as a sort of metaphor for the "life force", or as Paul Tillich called it in his existential theology, "The Courage to Be".

I realize there are issues with sharpness of focus, but, in context, one doesn't have time to optimize everything, and I am more interested in the light here than the sharpness. Let's start from that premise and any additional ideas would be very much appreciated.