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Sunflower....   a grungy sunflower.

Managed to get outside before the rain set in again. This flower is now over 8 feet tall (and growing between 2" and 4" each day!). It is now only accessible from the lawn which is terraced.

Doing some exploring with my recently acquired 24mm tilt/shift lens.
The flower was about 2" away from the centre of the flower. Full tilt applied on a diagonal. Taken at about f11 1/80th ISO 400. Processed in LR. Loaded into PS and a duplicate layer created. The top layer filtered with a high pass filter and then changed to Overlay at about 50-60% opacity to create a slight grungy/edgy feel.