For this photo I used my old Minolta SRT100x, Fuji Superia 100 and close-up filter +4.

-- Charles Bronson (deepblue97a@hotmail.com), May 13, 1999

Answers

The scan or possibly even the original is too soft in my opinion. When there is a full bunch of flowers like this as your subject I think you need more DOF...(I'll contradict that and post some of my fuzzy ones once I get them onto a photoCD :-)) An identification will be help too.

I didn't get the other part...it says copyright-Charles *Dias*...but the person who posted is Charles *Bronson* (the actor?? :-)). There's a violation right there!

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), May 13, 1999.

I explain, Bhaskar ... My full name is Charles Bronson Dias ... at hotmail just the two first names apears with your e-mail adress and I use my first name and family4s name for copyright. I4m looking forward to see one of your photos.

-- Charles Dias (deepblue97a@hotmail.com), May 14, 1999.

If your interested your little flower is a member of the Verbenaceae family, possibly of the genus Verbena. For my taste it's too soft, and would have benefited from a hard stopping down. The composition is nice though, and some people like this soft "romantic" look. David

-- David Bertioli (david@cenargen.embrapa.br), May 14, 1999.

It is in the Verbenaceae - its Lantana camara, a common weedy species in Florida. Great for butterflies. I agree about the focus being soft and the need for more DOF. Keep trying - the range of flower colors in one flower cluster is a great subject as it changes over the life of individual flowers and varies quite a bit from one inflorescence to the next.

-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), May 15, 1999.