This beautiful Etoile d'Hollande rose was decorating the facade of Anglesey Abbey today. It's an old-fashioned climbing rose, and it looks like it needs a big building to climb up, too. The scent was lovely as well. A pity there isn't a way to capture that yet.
The issue here was that something had made a meal of most of the leaves around the flower, so I tried to line the shot up to make the best of it, throwing the background out of focus deliberately whilst stopping it down enough to keep the whole flower in focus. It was a bit of a dull day, so I ended up on 1/40 sec exposure, hand held, but the image stabilization took care of keeping the image sharp. I then cropped it tight in Lightroom, and tried to get the depth of colour that I remembered.
Canon 60D with Canon EF-S 18-200mm at 150mm, 1/40 sec at f/7.1, ISO 400
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