A simple daisy. You see all sorts of complicated images of flower arrangements and cultivated blooms, to get a specific shade or shape to the petals. This daisy is from a 'rogue' patch of the ground cover, outside of any garden and just growing on the verge.
When did 'controlled' and cultivated and pruned and shaped and clipped and pinched into shape become a hallmark for 'beauty'? It's not a perfect flower, it's not even a perfect patch of plant, there are flaws, but there is ... something... about it that just made me itch to capture it forever on film. Artists can draw what is in their minds eye and show it to the world, photographers show the world through their own eyes.
This was taken with a simple, run of the mill digital camera, a canon if you must know the brand. Not a professional photographer's camera, I'm not a professional, it's a $100 thing, on the upper end of cheap and nasty, but it does the job, and that's all I ever asked of it. And somehow, something like -this- pops up out of the humdrum of your daily existence and you think, that just maybe, simple is better.
Not a rose, just a simple, pretty daisy, unfurling after a sprinkling of rain, or dew in the early morning. What more could you need, than that?
~Think of the Possibilities
