For all you flower lovers, a piece of fabric might be the only thing standing between you and a truly remarkable composition, as long as the fabric is not revealed as such. After shooting this agapanthus flower in its natural state (left), I took the orange ball cap off my head and placed it about 2 feet behind the flower, making sure to hold the surrounding background green stems gently “down” with the weight of the cap. As you can see in the second photo, I was now able to add another version of this one lone agapanthus flower to my collection.

Both images: Nikon D300S with Micro-Nikkor 105mm lens, f/6.7 for 1/250 sec., 100 ISO