This is a shot from last Saturday. The Forsythia are in full bloom this morning. What a difference a week makes. Last Saturday the only fully open blooms were low on the bush and hanging down toward the ground. As an experiment I flipped the LCD on the Canon right over so it pointed toward the front of the camera and put the camera under the bush pointing up. Nice shot of the flowers, but there was no way to get out of my own shot. I took it anyway, as a kind of self-portrait of the artist, with Forsythia. 🙂

Canon SX40HS at 24mm macro equivalent field of view (the flowers are almost touching the lens). Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation. f6.3 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 250.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.