I find roses beautiful and I capture images of them often. After the first hard freeze of fall, I visited downtown Chicago and the rose gardens of Grant Park. There were still some lovely blooms, but also some broken blooms, where the damage of that first hard frost could be seen. I like the way a rose comes to be, blooms, opens, and then dies, leaving wilted and dried petals behind. I love the texture of the dried pieces of old flower. The stem of this rose broke, leaving the bloom hanging upside down. The break in food and water, along with the frost, killed the flower. But look at the beauty that still remains!
This image was captured with an iPhone 5s and then edited with PhotoForge.
