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Behind The Lens

Location

I took this at my home in Tucson.

Time

I believe this was taken right after dawn.

Lighting

No special lighting....only shade and indirect sunlight.

Equipment

No special equipment used, just my old Kodak point-and-shoot camera.

Inspiration

Each year through our monsoon season, I have some nights that anywhere from 10-40 of these flowers will pop. What's strange though, is that I have both white and orange night bloomers which very rarely, will open on the same night. So, one day I will have a mass of orange flowers and the next night, I'll have just as many white ones. These flowers are always great photo ops.

Editing

There were only two things I did to process this photo....first was to crop it, then invert the colors.

In my camera bag

Currently I carry two Nikon DSLR cameras with me: a D5300 with an 18-140mm lens and a D60 with a standard 18-55mm lens. And of course extra SD cards, remote shutter controller that works for either camera, lens shades, battery chargers, and a professional full-sized fully adjustable tri-pod.

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