White and pink dahlia variations

Starting with this image of a dahlia flower in the garden:

I created 2 sphere / ball photos (drag the slider to show / hide the images):

Taking the version of the right I processed it with 2 different art effects of mine: ‘kl2’ and ‘kl2i’:

Taking the left-hand side ‘original’ version, again, I have applied my 2 art effects to produce this:

I usually prefer the ‘kl2i’ version (the right side) but with this image I prefer the ‘kl2’ versions. Which do you prefer?…