My mother-in-law gave my wife some daffodil plants last fall, when she was thinning her patch, and my wife planted a few up close to the foundation of the house in a sunny spot under windows. We had a 3 days of unseasonable 80 degree weather last month, and those daffodils have been trying to bloom ever since. They made it on Wednesday. I waited until afternoon, when the sun was full on them, and went out for some daffodil macros. It was a really challenge…as the wind was blowing, and daffodils are notorious, famous in song and poem in fact, for bouncing around even in a light breeze. And they do “nod”…the blooms hang down so all the action is facing the ground. I swung the lcd on the Canon SX40HS out to the side and faced it forward on the camera to get under the flowers, and set the camera to macro and 2x digital tel-extender for scale. I used aperture preferred exposure. so I could lock in f8 for maximum depth of field. The rest was just patience (and 4 frames per second burst mode :). The angle of the light could not have been better…a combination of direct light on the petals and back light coming through the petals.

Canon SX40HS at 24mm macro equivalent, plus 2x digital tel-extender function. Aperture preferred. f8 @ 1/160th @ ISO 100.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.