Actually, I think I prefer the painting daffodil... this one is also very nice, but there are a lot of daffodil photos, so I guess the effect you used to make the other like a painting gives an originality to it. But that's just my opinion, good thing you posted both!
I love them both for different reasons, and as we're having a snowstorm today, and I haven't seen a "real" daffy yet, I'll take all the pictures I can get of them. This one is a real beauty with that white fringe around the outside of the center trumpet. That's a new one on me. Nice work on both, Michael.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes