Dead Roses

For some reason I keep coming back to photographing dead flowers.  I want them to be seen as beautiful even though they are now dried out and dead.  Here's one I took today.

Zebra Rose

Here's a recent picture I took of a rose.  I absolutely love the contrast with the bright pink color and the zebra carpet in the background.  I cropped it purposely as long and narrow because I wanted to show a lot of the carpet.  I tried to make the dimensions 8x10 but I absolutely hated the photo when it was displayed this way.  It has to be long and narrow.  In my opinion, this is what makes the photo.