Cabbage Like Succulent Head
Due to the low amount of rainfall that we receive in southern California, many of us residents have been planting a lot of succulents and cactus in an effort to conserve water and because we fine the plants to be beautiful.  This is one of the strange looking plants that we have planted in the last five years.

I photographed this in our garden by using camera settings that cause the background to go quite dark and then lit the plant with  a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held at camera left and just out of the frame.  The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other plants, flowers, fruit or stuff that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1500 of them,  I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/</a>

If you like pictures of cactus and succulents, you might enjoy my Cactus and Succulents set.  That set can be seen here, and has over 400 images in it. 
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236</a>
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