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Cactus Blossom

Flowers amid the spines: a lovely contradiction.

Ron Wodaski
Jan 15
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Donna mentioned that one of her cacti was blooming, so I wanted to get a photo. Donna said, don’t bother—it’s really tiny.

So I got out one of my microscope objectives and fitted it to the Sony camera, and got a shot of the little flower. As with most macro photography, the depth of focus is shallow, but I like the splash of color and the mix of focused and not focused.

This was taken indoors on a gray day, so not much available light—the exposure was 1.6 seconds.

Here is a shot of the cactus itself, showing how tiny the flower was. The cactus is about 5” in diameter.

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Cheryl Renee Long
Jan 15Liked by Ron Wodaski

I like both cactus photos. They are quite painterly and either one would frame up on the wall quite beautiful and soft. It cracks me up Donna lives with a nerd like you that photographs a tiny flower. My husband is a nerd as well and does some crazy stuff. You know what I always say, strange is good.

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