Sunburst

Right now you might be thinking "What's up with all the flower pictures lately?" And to be honest I've been wondering the same thing myself since I don't normally go around taking photos of flora. But since the whole point of Weekly Fifty in the first place was to help me get out and shoot more photos in order to build my skills as a photographer, this second flower picture in as many weeks fits the bill quite nicely. I see it as a refinement of last week's Starburst picture, which was itself inspired by another flower picture, which probably came about as a result of seeing other flower pictures, and you get the idea. Photography, to me, is a continual process of improvement and the latest fruits of my own personal process are what you can see in the above yellow-and-orange image. In that sense, think of this as the second in a two-part series and see if that helps :)

A few days after I shot the Starburst photo we had one of those rainy, overcast days here in Oklahoma that would seem