Welcome to my Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). During the winter months, please feel free to use your archives and find some old favorite photos.
Please feel free to post every day or when you you feel like it. Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers.
I thought for a little white this year, I would do some color and black and white comparisons of flowers.



I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
Qi (energy) hugs
Cee
The black-and-white version of the sunflower is not as successful as the previous post. It seems drab and flat compared to the lively, vivacious color version. Looks like you selected a blue filter. Have you tried others?
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I’m sorry you don’t like the sunflower as much as the amaryllis from yesterday. I don’t really play that much with filters. I was looking at more the interior of the sunflower and tried to pull out as much detail as I could. I do agree the back cloud are washed out. You have given me some ideas to play with. Thanks 😀 😀
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The interior is very nice and rich in detail. Hope that you’ll have fun playing with filters.
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I can’t think of a more perfect flower for the first day of the new year than a sunflower. May we sun and rain in season. And may we have a good year. We deserve it.
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Thanks Marilyn 😀
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May we HAVE sun and rain in season. I wish they would give us a second or two to fix a comment.
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I always love a sunflower, Cee! Happy New Year to you and Chris!
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Happy New Year right back at you Terri 😀
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Sunflowers are among my favorites. This is a stunning photo.
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Thanks dahlia 😀 😀
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Beautiful in colour with amazing detail in b&w 😃
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Thanks Jez 😀 😀
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Happy new Year 💐 Thank you for inspiring me
https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/i-open-my-eyes-free-verse/
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Sunny yellow! Lovely colours!
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Thanks Maria 😀
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What a great way to start the year, Cee. I so love sunflowers, especially the coloured photo!
Here is my entry for today https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2023/01/02/pink-roses/
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I was also thinking of picking up a sunflower but then made a different choice 🙂 .
Here’s my entry:
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Beautiful!
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Sunflowers are my favorite flower of all and I enjoyed both the color and b&w version. I’ve got a yellow coneflower for today. https://heavenssunshine.com/as-bright-as-sunshine/
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I think your sunflower looks just as lovely in black & white or full living colour 🌻
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Glad you like both version Clare 😀
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Both lovely!
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Thanks Nora 😀
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A gorgeous sunflower. Very lovely 🙂
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Thanks Hammad 😀 😀
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