Every morning, when I get up, I go outside and I close my eyes and open them, and I wait to see what catches my eye, what my eye is drawn to, and then I stop and figure out which lens will best capture what I am seeing. This morning, I was drawn to the sunflower sticking out of the red Dahlia Garden, and the headless statue of an unknown saint behind it. I thought of the sunflower as almost being a head for the statue, and I was also drawn to the sunlight coming through the mist in the field, something that would backlight the photo. I chose a big lens, a 300 mm telephoto lens because it would focus on the statue and blur the color, giving the photo an effect that was not literal. I was able to capture what the eye was drawn to, a powerful element in my choice of photos to put up on the blog. My idea is that whatever I am drawn to is a good photo for me.

The ISO was 320, the lens was focused at 260 mm, f/5.6, 1/250