This passion flower is the size of a quarter and contains petals, pistles, bristles, pods, leaves and just about every color under rainbow. Looked like it came here from Mars. I'd not seen one before.
I shot it on Fuji Sensia 100 film with my Canon Elan 7NE and a Sigma 105mm F2.8 macro lens. I taped the flower to the end of a pencil and built a jig to hold it upright directly under the lens. The flower hide the pencil and jig from view. I used no flash, but instead reflected natural light from gold foil that I held in one hand and move around until I liked the shadows. I shot handheld and had to rock back and forth while holding my breath to get the parts I wanted in sharp focus, as my depth of field was extremely shallow.
In post, I removed the color and cleaned up a bit of dust. This shot was completed in 2007 and was shown along with 19 other images of the flower at a gallery in Venice, Florida.
