This is a blossom off of one of the many magnolia trees that bloom at our local botanical garden. I did some clean up on the BG to smooth it out a bit as there were some hot spots of light shining through between the branches.
Canon 40D, EF 100mm f/2.8 macro
f4 @ 1/250th, ISO 100
Manual mode, pattern metering, handheld
Evaluative Fill flash used to help with deep shadows
Processed in ACR & CS4; small crop, smoothed BG, sharpening






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