This verse was the original one requested and this picture is what got me to act on the request. When I saw it afterwards I was taken with how vividly and perfectly it illustrates the verse.
That water is present in both pictures is not coincidental. I never miss an opportunity to take photos of flowers after a heavy fog or rain, the results are always quite impressive.
This is the same kind of flower- a cosmos- as the one for verse 25. Could even be the exact same flower.
It had been my intent to do this in landscape format as the previous one was, however when looking at the photos the words of this verse worked as perfectly above and below the flower as the ones to verse 25 had worked along side it.
Should the need arise I could do a version of it in landscape mode, however I decided it was better to go with the artistic "dao" than to force conformity between the two for conformity's sake.
The monochrome versions are below. The first looks better, the second prints better. This is not a picture which converts well to monochrome... far too much of the intensity of the withered petals and faded center is lost.
Better looking mono, using Floyd-S dithering setting 160, then inverted.
Prints out better. Same dithering as above. This was the first mono version I created.
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