Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Lantana confetti

LANTANA CONFETTI, CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN, GLENCOE, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 25, 2010

Pentax K10D
Tamron SP AF 90mm DI Macro
1/350 sec. f8
ISO 400

They look like blooms from three different plants, but this is a single tricolor flower cluster of Lantana confetti, a shrub spotted yesterday in the Botanic Garden's tropical greenhouse. I really should have used a tripod rather than hand-holding the camera at f8 so that the lens could have been stopped down to f16, yielding a greater depth of field.

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