So, I skipped church in order to worship at the temple of photography this morning. I gave the security guards at Harry and David something to do again. They don’t seem to mind that I’m there taking pictures, they just see my car and have to come investigate. Anyway, I’m not really that fond of roses as a photographic subject but when I do shoot them this is what I’m going for. Unfortunately this rose had a few blemishes that I couldn’t seem to photoshop out so I’ll have to give this one an A- but it’s definitely headed in the right direction. I shot this with the Lensbaby Sol45 handheld on the Canon M3 with an extension tube. Post processing was about as usual. Tweaked the exposure, opened the shadows, burned in the upper right corner, added a high pass filter and cropped in just a little bit. I also ran this one through a denoise program to help emphasize the smoothness in the blurred areas.