First Epiphyllum Bloom Of The Year
My wife grows epiphyllum plants in hanging baskets in our garden.  This is the first opened bloom of the year and I photographed it this morning.

Lighting:  The plant was under overcast skies and I used camera settings that caused the background to go quite dark.  I then lit the plant using a hand held Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held at camera right at 1 o'clock.  The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other pictures that I've taken of these beautiful flowers can be found in my creatively titled Epiphyllum Flowers album.  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157680754580643">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157680754580643</a>

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.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544</a>
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