Night Blooming Cactus Flower And The  Pollinators That Love It
Some of our big cactus have been putting on quit a flower show for the last few months.  These are all night bloomers and within a few hours of the sun putting direct light on the flower, it will be completely closed.

I lit this with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera right.  The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.  The flash was hand held and was pointed at the flower from 4 o'clock.

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 1600 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</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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