Gran's Flower

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

A petal fallen from the flower of a tree my Gran bought for our garden.

Pentax K-x - 1/1000 sec - f/0 - ISO 400 - ~75mm

Daylight.

Used GIMP to adjust levels, scale for web.

I was shooting the flower itself, and felt it was pretty ordinary, when i noticed the colours and textures of the leaf litter below. I quite like this picture, but it was hard to pick from the many shots I got, with varying angles and compositions. It would only have made it harder, I think, if I'd gone so far as to stop the aperture down (I'm still addicted to absolute minimum depth of field).