Beauty

I have several photographic events in the next few weeks that will look better with off-camera flash; so continued practicing tonight.  I was fortunate to attend the Joe McNally/David Hobby Flashbus workshop last Sunday - what an experience to see such a pro working!
I picked on the orchid again, and like this one.  The floating in black is very appealing to me.  I also have a couple of Diana - she agreed to be a test subject for me- but I'm not allowed to post those :-)

On our back deck, we have a number of ornaments hanging from the tree.  A setting sun was the backlite for these two - and this is a composite.  These two do not hang this close together.  I like the shapes and colors.