Sunflower

Feeding birds generates volunteer sunflowers. You'd think they'd all be similar sunflowers, but it's pretty clear that the birdseed providers just sell us whatever seeds they can get. By summer's end we have tall and short sunflowers, large- and small-faced sunflowers, impressive and nondescript sunflowers.

This one grew in a planter, and the planter's (ray-like) spikes in the background somehow managed to survive until January (of last year). All in all, I rather like the effect.

This could be considered a daily-photo outtake, too, since it came from the 1/6/2012 folder. The photograph doesn't really work as monochrome, but I rather like it with color. So I offer it here for your edification. Whatever.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

366/2012 project discussion here.