That’s what we in the business refer to as “minor exaggeration.” These flowers are actually very small, something on the order of 6-10 mm top-to-bottom. On my screen, they are something like double-sized in the preview below, although you should be able to click and get a larger version. The photo was taken with a Burke and James Press camera in 4×5, on Fomapan 100, processed in R09 at 1+40. The exposure was about 15 seconds through a completely useless lens - really! Can’t be used to take photographs! - that was temporarily mounted in an alternate shutter, thus rendering the f-stop dial useless. So I don’t know the stop, but it was small.
Enormously Huge Flowers
13/05/2010 at 7:51 am Permalink
This lovely photograph somehow reminds me of the Marx Brothers. I should seek help.
15/05/2010 at 5:22 pm Permalink
I always want to call it “the Three Tenors.”