Bee Balm

Or Monarda didyma. The one clump in our garden is starting to bloom and I can never resist the neat looking flowers. We had light fog this morning, which mellowed out the rising sun a bit. This is side lit from the left by that sun.

5Diii, 180mm f3.5 macro, f32, 1/4 sec, iso 400, Av mode with -1/3 compensation. Processed in CS6. I screwed up in the field and had to rotate the image about 7 degrees ccw. This required adding a triangle after the crop which I did using content aware fill followed by some cloning. Taken this morning at 5:46 am.

Your comments and criticisms are very much appreciated.

Thanks for looking,