Purple Flower Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

Briefly noted: Like Gaillardia Gone to Seed, this is a flatbed scan, using a black velvet cloth taped into position as the background. For this kind of image, the resolution I can obtain from a decent flatbed scanner is fantastic compared to the best my camera can do—but, of course, there is very little depth and no control of depth-of-field.