image evolution, breakin the rules and what if's?

Sometimes images evolve...yes, I think I have had this thought before....
While doing some quick shooting at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens on Friday, I made an image of a Dragonfly eating an ant while cool in the shade of a big green lotus leaf, hanging on with his feet in a vertical position...it was not the first image I wanted to process from that shoot. It was the prettier ones I went for first. But I did process it..and looked at it again and again...First I thought it looked best cropped into a square.....then I watched a little demonstration by Craig Tanner of The Mindful Eye today, who suggested the image he had processed could also be a diptych. That gave me an idea for the dragonfly eating lunch...so playing around with that idea I came up with this presentation. I also played around with snapart Impasto filter and applied it to the canvas as well as the image. It moved the light around in cool ways, that I liked in the dragonfly image above. Well it was something to play around with tonight.  Evolution......below....DF Lunch 1 is processed with the Pointillism filter in Snapart2....while the same image Dragonfly lunch is the original photo squared up.

Breaking the rules: Yes I have heard in critiques 1. Never to cut the petals off the edge of the frame and 2. No bullseyes and 3. Never shoot flowers in the blazing sun. ..hmmm...breaking all my own rules........

This lotus I shot in blazing sunlight, centered the subject and cut off some petals, but I loved the curves and shadows of the petals exaggerated by the harsh light.....so I turned it into a B&W image, because I liked it better that way and honestly shot it thinking B&W. So by doing some quick adjustments it was where I had envisioned it, but I said what if I try it with some snapart2? and so there are two versions...