Just filling in the last Daily-Photo blank after missing two days. Decided to complete my "how many ways can you shoot a this rose" (for now) with this one which is what I call a shoot-through - focus on a distant subject (1-2 feet away) while holding something close to (or actually against in this case) my wide-open macro lens. What was being held in this case were several pink pipe stem cleaner (craft store item) that were twirled into a circle of sorts with a hole in the center or a pink donut (a circle so that the center of the rose (image top right) could be more transparent than the rest of the image. The wide open macro lens turns the near object into a colored fog. Placing the near object & shooting is pretty much a crap-shoot since it's almost impossible to tell via the viewfinder what you'll get. Just shoot several & see. I call techniques that have an unknown/uncontrollable factor shooting with chaos (butterfly wings in China don't count). Needless to say - all in-camera; don't need no stinkin' Photoshop.
These three rose images (today's & the two previous days') would work in a portfolio that I have in mind - floral triptychs - that shows alternative views of the same subject (alternates which vary either the technique, the perspective, the scale or any & all combinations of the three). The first daily photo for this month illustrates a finished triptych using a gerbera daisy.