Bird of Paradise flower that is. One of the treats of my yearly San Diego trip is always the Bird of Paradise plants in full bloom. They are just so outrageously vivid. I like the flower, and I like the individual parts of the flower. This close-up turns the contrasting colors and shapes into an abstract composition.

Sony NEX 3NL with 16-50mm zoom. Macro mode. ISO 200 @ 1/200th @ f7.1. 75mm equivalent. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. Cropped for composition.