Mr. Wheat's Iris

The iris that Mr. Wheat gave us a few years back are in full bloom.  They are beautiful and they will always remind me of a man Rudy and I dearly love.  I was playing around with headers and decided to try using one of the iris photos as a background.  It was OK.  Then I played around with some photo techniques and came across one that I loved almost immediately.

Here's the photo before -

And here's the photo after - cropped and with my title -