Thanks, Brian. I did something different with this one. I took two copies from the RAW. The first had the clarity slider pulled back to make it soft, and the second had it increased to make it more gritty. I merged them in CS6, with the gritty bit for the centre of the shot (the stamens) and the softer one for the outside.
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Thank you my Floridian friend!