This is the 1/26/07 PAD - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/73571118 - five days later and taken from the opposite side to highlight the first blossom to open. From this angle a vertical worked better than the previous horizontal - thank goodness for L-brackets.
Here's today's look at yesterdays's PAD - 24 hours later. Nice flower portrait - even a judge would have trouble finding things to pick at. http://www.pbase.com/image/73797894
There's a ceiling hot air register above this plant. With the long exposures needed to get adequate depth of field (6" or so fron to back) I have to turn the furnace off or the slight breeze ruins the shot. It's below freezing.