This sunflower was captured back on July 11 when we still knew what blue skies looked like. It was one of those days when I hemmed and hawed over which image to post then went in another direction. But going back I think this one is definitely worth of recognition and possibly better than the one I ended up posting on that day.
I had already processed it before but in keeping with the spirit of the project I felt I needed to process it again today. I opened the shadows, actually had to tone down the saturation a little, added a high pass filter and did some spot healing of blemishes on the flower. Oh yes, it was shot with the M3 and a normal short telephoto zoom lens.