This morning I needed to walk a package over to the post office so I grabbed the M3 with the new lens and headed out. On the way back I stumbled onto these Day Lilies next to Camelot theater. I had an “Oh, Goody” moment when I saw them as I have been shooting day lilies off and on but one never came up for the image of the day so I thought it was high time. the challenge of the new lens is getting the sweet spot of focus in the right place but when it happens the results are just amazing. I added a vignette to this one to bring the flower forward. Then I debated whether it needed a texture or not and decided to just try one. I loved the look of the first one I tried except that the texture was a little too in your face so I added a Gaussian Blur and masked it out over the flower and Voila! I’m pretty happy with the result on this one.