Common Field Speedwell (veronica persica)

Common Field Speedwell (veronica persica)

Common Field Speedwell (veronica persica)

The common speedwell (veronica persica) has been a long-term project.  How do you capture its essence?  Unregarded, very beautiful, reticent, always hiding in the grass.  And then the usual problems:  how do you make a satisfying image out of a single flower?  Or how do you contrive a grouping with a solitary flower like the speedwell?  Here are two attempts.