I got up very early on Saturday for Burrowing Owls and again on Sunday for a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. (Owls were great. RMNP, not so much: animal total was 1 moose, a half-dozen mangy deer, and not a single elk. Too windy to look for Pika and Marmots on top). I’m way too tired for serious photo editing, so instead of working through my backlog of photos, I’ve been puttering around in my catalog of older images.
In the course of said puttering, I ran across this fairly-old image of Leafy Aster. I’ve always liked the texture of the center of the flower, but the flower petals are tad too worn to make for a really great image. On a lark, I converted the image to monochrome. Add a little dodging and burning, lots of contrast, a slight color tone, and voila. The worn flower works much better in monochrome.
