In the spotlight.

This is another on the way to work picture – it would not have worked at any other time.  The light caught my eye as I was walking past and I had to go back for a second look.

It is only at the beginning and end of the day that it is possible to get such useful light, in the middle of the day it is just too bright.

The effect I was trying to capture was the light hitting the top flower, but it was made more difficult by the strength of the light.  I wanted the smaller flower in as well, but if I moved round one way I got an awful background, move slightly the other way and the sun did not light up the flower.

In the end I settled for a little too much light, but cropped some of the top of the picture out.  The compromise I made was that there is less of the bottom flower stalk in than I would have liked, making it feel a little unbalanced.

I have also applied some sharpening in light room as the Canon S90 can take quite soft pictures.

ISO 80, 6mm, 1/200secs at f/4.0.