Orton Imagery Daffodils

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A while back, Michael (mjs1973) posted an image called A Painted House that was done with a technique called "Orton Imagery". Here is the link:

A Painted House

I tried using that technique on this macro image of some daffodils in my front yard. It isn't quite following the procedure, since it started out as a shallow DOF shot as opposed to long DOF, but I thought the results were pretty good and wanted to know what you folks thought about it. Has anyone else tried this technique?

(For completeness, here is the link to the article in "Nature Photographers Online Magazine" that Michael provided: http://www.naturephotographers.net/a.../dw0106-1.html)