Wonderfulicious Wednesday - Agave study

From a distance this bloom seems to be anything but complex in structure.

  Once a year the blooms on a rather

boring Agave decorate the garden

with their glory of which is presently fading.

 As each petal starts to decay and fall off, the lacy stalk forms. 

Last year I missed the most of the stages of the glory the agave produces.

 This year I seem to be more in tune to the garden and what it presents to

me and with the gift of time I've made some photographic studies of a few of the cacti.

This particular image will most likely find its way into something manipulated.

I've just rediscovered working with negative prints again. 

Almost a little too manipulated, but the dance 

is joyous.