Mike SoE inspired me to deviate from high pass sharpen which is one of my pre-sets

[flamin lib]

2. I've striven so hard for so long to achieve the sharpest possible results

that I had become blind to the feeling that a soft image can elicit. Mike's last post really struck me with the misty sort of soft feeling of the flowers against the rust barbed wire that I had to hit the archives and try to find something that would generate the same kind of affect on me. I guess sometimes ya' gotta' just pull yer' head out and look around.

This could have been a good entry for the Summer contest 'cause Bougainvillea is definitely a summer bloom.