The Heart of the Matter is another of that recent batch I just took. I hadn't realized the garden had just been watered as all the rest of the photos I took up til then had been in bright sun, and any water drops had dried off. So I was a little surprised to see tiny drops in this picture once it was up on my screen. It was one of those I had to take at a distance because I could not get in close, intending to crop. What drew me to this rose center was the contrast between the unruly seeds and the somewhat orderly surrounding petals. And that's what prompted me to keep changing the colors and saturation until a really good contrast appeared.

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