I was sitting around the house on a cold, wet Friday and the old sunflowers on the counter drew my attention.

From the start this is what I considered to be the photograph. But as I made the picture, working to get the white behind the flower correctly framed it just didn't gibe with what I was seeing in my mind.

This worked better and the flower in the background adds a little depth to the image I did not think necessary. The vision I had still did not come to me, with a single flower starkly standing out on a lighter background. Still trying.

Then this came to me, to frame the flower against the blinds, the tungsten balance, set at 3250 Kelvin, made the outdoors more blue than gray. When finished I figured this was the one. Little did I know image number two above would sneak into the front of the pack after editing in Photo Mechanic.