Fading Roses

My wife received some roses for her birthday and, as they aged, instead of dropping their petals they quietly faded and dried.  I was intrigued by this and decided to photograph them. I was also inspired the photograph by Edward Steichen 'Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France', that I had recently seen in the V&A. The initial images are with my regular Lightroom workflow: adjust levels, slight increase in clarity and vibrance and a little sharpening.  I then made black and white conversions of one and changed to sepia and then slightly desaturated the full colour versions.