Pink And White Cactus Flower With Rain Drops
I photographed this cactus flower this morning before the morning light was on it. Three hours later the flower was completely closed.  It had rained last night and I like the look of the drops on the flower.

Lighting stuff:  I used camera settings that let the background go quite dark, and then lit the flower with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 Lastolite soft box hand held at camera left.  The flash, and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

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/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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