Your cut stem blooms look beautiful, Matt. They are not the easiest subjects for photographing. Andrew Wilson San Diego > Well, as long as we are all chatting about Nerine, I might as well > share my images on my Flickr page from last week. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/exploraculture/page2/ > > I tried photographing all of my collection this year, since most > bloomed, so that I could have an image with the name tag, and the > blossom, but they are so challenging to photograph. I spent three days > shooting each stem with a label, but they looked nothing like the real, live, blossom. > > I finally decided to just pick them all, and arrange them on a board > in the garden, arranged in floral foam by color. I figured that a nice > photoshoot was worth a few seeds! > > Matt Mattus > Worcester, MA USA > Zone 5b