> > Unlike you, I have found the best time to photograph to be on slightly overcast > days, when the flower is evenly lit; the colors stay put; and don't overwhelm. > But that's a personal preference. > Agreed with the caveat that we find morning light best and no in camera processing of the image color and then processing with one of the color curves we keep on that image to compensate for the CCD's quirks. Bracket each image 1/2 stop under and over. Mark Mazer Hertford, North Carolina USA zone 8a Smallest Massonia in bloom...pygmaea from Penroc seed about 3m across and pustulate. Very high cute factor. Early forms of Lach quadricolor in bloom now as is L. congesta and the better forms of L. viridiflora