Cactus With Red And White Spines On Top
Photographed yesterday in our cactus garden.  Sadly we didn't record the name of this plant, but the red color in the top spines caught my eye.

Lighting:  I used camera setting that let the background go dark and than lit the cactus with a hand held Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera left.  The flash and my camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other succulent and cactus pictures that I've taken can be seen in my creatively titled Cactus and Succulents album.
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I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 1100 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
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