A nice macro film shot of those stamens coming out of those anthers, with others just starting to emerge. For shots like this, I focus the lens manually and lean back and forth a bit until I think I’ve actually got the subject in focus. With a DSLR, that’s pretty easy; just take a dozen shots, show the keeper, and no one has to know how many failed shots there were. Every one of those 36 exposures counts on a roll of film, though, so I’m always glad when I get the results back from the lab and feel like “Yeah, that was what I wanted.”

August 11, 2024. Nikon F5, Fujifilm Color 200, 105mm Nikon macro lens, ISO 200.