Taken in a wildlife garden at the rear of a church in Dorchester (England). I love the feeling of contentment and relaxation this image gives.

To enhance this dreamy, ethereal quality I processed the RAW file in Photoshop CS5, copied the image onto a layer, which I then blurred. I then lowered the opacity of the blurred layer to 30% to let the sharp background layer show through (this processing is known as the Orton effect).

This image finished 7th equal in the dpreview.com "The Garden" challenge (July 2010).