Garden flowers to sphere images

I have tried taking simple photos of flowers in the garden and converting them to spheres. I am showing most of these images using the comparison slider: drag the slider bar to hide/reveal the images.

I will start with some pink dahlias in the garden:

This is an alternative sphere/ball of the same starting image above:

This next pair shows a mainly white iris in the garden:

Now I am showing a deeper blue specimen of iris:

Also I have two alternative sphere/ball versions of the same iris including a 2-pole version:

This set of photos worked better than I expected – I don’t always need to use one of my art effects to give an interesting image…