Black and white image is a winner

Brian Lynch didn't have to hike up Petersburg Mountain or go aboard a vessel in search of his photo "BW" that was recently selected for an exhibition dedicated to flowers. All the local photographer had to do was go out to the garden and look over by the wood shed.

"I was out there playing around and this was out there," he says. "I flipped my camera so it was on monochrome because I had decided to do it in black and white."

He saved the photo and gave it a "goofy name" then kind of forgot about it, until he came across the "Flower Power" contest sponsored by 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, Calif...