Shallow

This picture doesn't really have much of a back story. I had just gotten the D200, and I was trying out stuff for the very first time (like controlling Depth of Field). I had gone to Seattle for a long weekend, and the garden near the Space Needle had a ton of different flowers growing that you usually don't see.

I liked this picture especially because it was my first good attempt at taking a picture where I consciously controlled the DOF (hence the title), and the framing and composition turned out well.