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I have sent this to the lab to be printed in 8" x 10", after which I will mat it in 16" x 20" and I already have the 16" x 20" frame for it.  I'm excited to see what it looks like printed big.  My photography professor really liked this one, and said it was very yonic (from yoni, the opposite of phallic.  I knew that such a word must exist, but I never knew what it was).  And yes, I agree that it is quite yonic a la Georgia O'Keefe.  These four below had to be cropped for the 8" x 10" constraints.  I like the original versions better, but custom sizes get pretty spendy, not to mention require custom matting and framing, so I just went with the 8" x 10"s.  This first one was from the Rose Garden at Reid Park, and it was literally the only rose in the place when I took it in February.  We had just come through a period of winter rains, and the place was flooded, muddy and full of sagging, dead-looking rose bushes, until I found it.  Glorious!

And I sent this one.  This was a $4.99 pot of flowers from Trader Joe's, on my dining room table with natural morning light, and I put a piece of black stretchy velvet underneath it for a background.  I used the extension tube shown in my first gear post below.

And I sent this one.  This was taken at the Reid Park Zoo in early February.  Nice bokeh going on here.

And this one.  It was taken at the Tucson Desert Museum in the Hummingbird Enclosure.  This was freehand, no tripod, which seems to surprise a lot of photography people I know and is apparently impressive to do this freehand.  Okay!  I like the original uncropped version better, as I do with most of these.

And this one for our friend, Ally.  She took me to her cooking class with her, and I got this shot of the Chocolate Souffle she made, and she loved it and wanted it blown up and framed to hang in her kitchen, so I am having it printed and will frame it and mat it for her as a surprise.

Okay, please don't copy my photos without permission.  I hate to sound so vain, especially when I did the same thing in the post below to show the barn flooring, but I haven't figured out how to make a watermark in PSE8 yet.  If you know, kindly send me an email to walk me through it!