a {not-so-rosey} rose

roses are red
violets are blue
unless they're made sepia
by me or by you

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i was at my friend mary's house last night. i went to pick her up for a night out with the girls. tapas and sangrias––doesn't get much better than that.

anyway, mary always has the prettiest flowers in her yard. her roses were in bloom, although most of them were on their way out for the year, but still pretty. i took a few shots, but the color was not quite right. and the edges of the rose were starting to brown because it had been there for quite a while.

so i thought this was a good opportunity to play some more with textures and vintagization. {that's my new word.} i made it sepia, added texture and played around. i was recently on a blog that posts a lot of vintage photos. {it's called toadberry––you should check it out.} it inspired me to try something neat with this photo. i love how many of the old photos had that little date on the edge of the photo where the white frame is. so i recreated that on my photo to give it that extra old feel. kind of neat, hah?

finally, i just added some text with a script font to give it the appearance of an old photo that had had a caption written on it by someone's grandma or something. wah-lah!

this one is for you,

miss mary-mary-how-does-your-garden-grow!