'Melissa' savoy cabbage is an F1 hybrid. For a brief explanation of the debate surrounding open-pollinated, heirloom, and hybrid vegetable seeds, check out “Heirlooms versus Hybrids: A Common-sense Approach”, an article by Renee Shepherd on the site of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

For the black and white version, I repeated the same steps as I did for Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate', except I instead screened the red and blue channels in the first step. I'm quite happy with this particular technique for generating images that have some dimensionality.

Photography resource link: Abstracting the Landscape via The Luminous Landscape.