There are times when, if you want to really get to know your subject, you need to get up close and personal. I found these types of yellow flowers to be a bit tricky and difficult, but well worth exploring in different ways. Yellow is one of the harder colors to expose and get different gradients of the color to show without washing out, and due to the odd shape, its somewhat weird to find the right angles. I was fascinated by the center and how it goes into a void in the middle. There is some green that turns yellow, and I wasn't sure if this was in full bloom or if the green would eventually be completely gone. The little cylinder-like structures in the middle were also something I tried to focus on more.
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