I've dipped into the archives for today's photograph. The original out-of-camera image is here, and if you compare the two (ignoring the tighter crop of this image), you'll note that this image is sharper and cleaner. I ran it through some of the digital processing tools I now use to see if it could be improved, and I think it is.

From our interpretative sign for this plant: Aroids (the family Araceae) produce a characteristic spathe and spadix flower arrangement. The woodland aroid, Arisaema consanguineum, has a purple-green spathe with narrow, white, vertical stripes and a hood with a filamentous tail-like tip. The spathe encloses the club-like spadix (itself extended by a whiplash tail), which has all over its surface hundreds of tiny flowers. In late summer, the spathe withers and exposes a head of tightly packed red-orange berries. The species, native over much of eastern Asia, is one of nearly two dozen arisaemas in the David C. Lam Asian Garden at UBC Botanical Garden.

You can see more photographs of Arisaema consanguineum (including the spathe and spadix flower arrangement) via the web site of the International Aroid Society.

Photography / Photoshop resource link: Image Processing Workflow via The Luminous Landscape. It's not the workflow that I do, as I rely on plugins and tools to accomplish some of what is outlined, but when I first started dipping my feet into processing digital images, tutorials like these proved invaluable to understanding the fundamentals.