Words often carry hints and connotations that extend beyond their literal meaning and I find that thinking beyond those literal meanings spurs creative interpretation. In this case I had gone one evening to photograph a large field of sunflowers not too far from where I live. As I thought about the sunflowers I disassembled the composite word and started thinking about how I could recombine the two halves in such a way as to express the essence of sun flower.The sun itself was cooperating, or rather, I had chosen the time of day that lends itself better to sun photography since it was low in the sky. This is one of several images made that evening in which I included the sun and the sunflowers in the same image, necessarily built as a composite image because exposing for the sun would have blocked up the sunflowers and exposing for the sunflowers would have entirely burned out the area around the sun.