The Beauty of Colour

I've Been thinking black and white the past little while. Tonight I was looking through old photos to see if there was something I could convert. I came across this one which I had looked at before but the timing wasn't just quite right. However I did do some manipulating. I saturated colour in the flower a bit then desaturated and darkened the background some. I wanted the colour on the flower to stand out. I think it works. So much for black and white tonight. 

 This was with the 100mm lens shot at /160th sec f8 iso 400