Sunroot in the sun

I expect next two or even three weeks will be quiet on blog. Good thing is at least I have time to photograph. I started to work on something which might turn out into my first really photo project. I set to photograph my mom’s flower garden. I really can devote time to that, and already spent three evenings with tripod there. Hopefully, I am not stepping on anything important, when I take out my macro and need to get close :). First I thought, I have a week or two to work on it, so maybe I will devote one evening for zoom lens, one for Lensbaby and so on. But a browse through first day (3 keepers out of about 100 images) made me re-think the idea. Hard to believe, but I missed the focus even on calm evening and on tripod. So next day, I reshoot missed flowers from previous evening, only to find out that the situation in the garden already changed! The new blooms showed up, and some I wanted to photograph were already fading. I think I need to speed up :).
I usually go out to photograph in the evening. There is less heat, and the sun is partially hidden behind houses and trees in the woods. I was setting up to photograph those flowers, when I noticed the sun is shinning through the branches and thought of doing sun flare type of effect. I set-up the tripod, and on my first try, I got this effect instead of what I was looking for. Well, I liked it, so I pinpointed the exposure right where the flower was well lit.

By the way, I am not 100% sure this is the right flower name- I spend already half a day browsing through website with garden flowers, and cannot find exact match. So if you know the name- leave a comment below!