Honey Bees Working A Night Blooming Cactus Flower
I photographed this flower fairly early this morning before there was any direct sunlight hitting it.  My neighbor has a natural bee hive next door and his bees were all over the flower.  They seem to really like cactus flowers, or maybe they're the only flowers they find before the sun is up.

Lighting stuff:  I lit the flower with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held at camera left and just out of the frame.  I used camera settings that let the background go dark, because there was nothing in the background that would have improved the image.  The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

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 380 images in it. 
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236</a>

Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys 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 1400 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>

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