Flower Friday: Mono Tiny Daffodil

A friend gave my Editor a little pot of 3 daffodil bulbs the other day - the sort which produce tiny flowers. They just started to open today so here's the first one at the "infant" stage! It's only 1-1.5cm across but I thought it would work OK in mono, for the Mono Month Challenge.

I tried a different technique for the background today. I collect lots of photos of textures of all sorts, with the idea to use them to add textures in Photoshop (as I did for last week's FF challenge). However to save messing in Photoshop I called up one of the textures on my computer screen and stood the flower about a foot in front of it so that the texture was naturally applied "in camera". Using a moderate sized aperture (and a focus stack) I was able to keep the texture suitably out of focus. (I have however added a faint oil-paint filter in Photoshop as I thought it improved it - feel free to say so if you don't like it as it's a bit of an experiment.)

Thanks to BikerBear Anni for continuing to look after the FF challenge. Hope her vertigo is better soon!