Echinacea photo

[ronaldhanko]

Thought I'd post a flower photo, not an orchid, that I think turned out fairly well. It was taken last summer at the Devonian Botanic Gardens near Edmonton (we have a son-in-law, daughter, and granddaughter up there). The camera was hand-held and the photo taken with my Tamron 90mm 2.8 macro. Since it was a dull day, I upped the ISO to 800 and shot the photo at 1/800 since there was a light breeze blowing. I used an aperture of 11 to get more depth of field and shot fairly close to the flower to get better background blur (bokeh).

[Amanda L]

Love it! I added you as a contact in Flickr. Not really sure what that means, I am new to Flickr.

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks for looking Amanda and I'll add you as a contact, too. All that means is that the new photos of your contacts show up when you click on "contacts."

[Amanda L]

Thanks for adding me! I always like looking at your photos, they are all so beautiful!

[ChasWG]

You totally rocked that one Ron! Yummy f11 bokeh!!! This are difficult flowers to shoot and you really captured this one well.

[Lagoon45]

WOW - What super shot that was Ron

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Chas and Lagoon.

[ChasWG]

Not a problem Ron. BTW, I added you as a contact as well on Flickr. I'm surprised that I hadn't done that before.