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Now for some explanation, since the ruse worked as intended.
Of course, the "real" version of this photo is .
This cheesy "vintage" postproc was a bit of a bait for the folks from a fairly large and popular group, #Polish-artists , whose photo moderators claim to care for high level of quality and artistic creativity.
Why bother? Because I'm used to stuff like #HDRoom or #CANON-DIGITAL-SLR in terms of quality and selection, that is: to seeing my shots rejected from a group due to their technical or aesthetical shortcomings*. After I joined my 'national' group I've seen a few rejects which gave me wide-eye while some photos in group's gallery strongly suggested unhealthy levels of snobbery partly substituting good taste - while at the same time, some others were really great. It's quite definitely the biggest and most popular group focused on Polish works and yes, I do thirst for fame and glory or at least some exposition, so before just leaving for pastures new I decided to make sure. First, by submitting an old HDR with bad halos and too much grain . That one ended up with me changing my mind about the photo again and resolving to actually try improving that shot one of these days, since the jury defended it with sensible and convincing arguments. Soon after, ~Isyala submitted one of her Prague shots . Before declining it, the jury tried to make her spoil it by "placing key elements in the strong points of the frame", as if the lantern was not already as close to crossing of thirds as possible and there was any more cropping to be sensibly done. With more and more clues hinting at the selection of works to #Polish-artists gallery based mostly on kitch and cheap hip with occasional great choices of obviously highest quality photos, I decided to do the ultimate test: take a fairly decent photo and then massacre it with the dreadful violet overlay and artificial vignetting, then call it "vintage" and troll it up to the group.
Result: accepted. I guess it's time to move on.

*) For example, one the Canon groups rejected one of the shots I consider to be among my best ever, The Ark . I'm almost sure they did it because of the flare which I just have no heart to remove, since in my eyes it forms part of the overall lighting concept, but is an obvious error from purely technical PoV. I haven't also seen many kitchy snaps in their gallery, so I can safely assume they know what they do.

PS.: I have an uneasy suspicion lingering in the back of my head. It's that the white flowers on vibrant green background can be dismissed as "nothing special really" while the cheesy "vintage" postproc actually does, as a side effect, put a strong focus on the crucial flower while dimming all the distractions around it.

Description
Now for some explanation, since the ruse worked as intended.
Of course, the "real" version of this photo is .
This cheesy "vintage" postproc was a bit of a bait for the folks from a fairly large and popular group, #Polish-artists , whose photo moderators claim to care for high level of quality and artistic creativity.
Why bother? Because I'm used to stuff like #HDRoom or #CANON-DIGITAL-SLR in terms of quality and selection, that is: to seeing my shots rejected from a group due to their technical or aesthetical shortcomings*. After I joined my 'national' group I've seen a few rejects which gave me wide-eye while some photos in group's gallery strongly suggested unhealthy levels of snobbery partly substituting good taste - while at the same time, some others were really great. It's quite definitely the biggest and most popular group focused on Polish works and yes, I do thirst for fame and glory or at least some exposition, so before just leaving for pastures new I decided to make sure. First, by submitting an old HDR with bad halos and too much grain . That one ended up with me changing my mind about the photo again and resolving to actually try improving that shot one of these days, since the jury defended it with sensible and convincing arguments. Soon after, ~Isyala submitted one of her Prague shots . Before declining it, the jury tried to make her spoil it by "placing key elements in the strong points of the frame", as if the lantern was not already as close to crossing of thirds as possible and there was any more cropping to be sensibly done. With more and more clues hinting at the selection of works to #Polish-artists gallery based mostly on kitch and cheap hip with occasional great choices of obviously highest quality photos, I decided to do the ultimate test: take a fairly decent photo and then massacre it with the dreadful violet overlay and artificial vignetting, then call it "vintage" and troll it up to the group.
Result: accepted. I guess it's time to move on.

*) For example, one the Canon groups rejected one of the shots I consider to be among my best ever, The Ark . I'm almost sure they did it because of the flare which I just have no heart to remove, since in my eyes it forms part of the overall lighting concept, but is an obvious error from purely technical PoV. I haven't also seen many kitchy snaps in their gallery, so I can safely assume they know what they do.

PS.: I have an uneasy suspicion lingering in the back of my head. It's that the white flowers on vibrant green background can be dismissed as "nothing special really" while the cheesy "vintage" postproc actually does, as a side effect, put a strong focus on the crucial flower while dimming all the distractions around it.