Gas Station 05-30-2005

Realized that I was late for my Granny's birthday. I try to send her an original flower photo for every occasion and she loves pink. I had been noticing a lovely planting of blush roses at the gas station ringing the pump area. I zoom off to our local Shell station, start pumping and ran around with the camera and macro lenses. Unfortunately, the rose blooms were now past peak and I had a -2 exposure compensation, I thought that every shot was a loss. However after a week, I took a peek and think this is a keeper. It is a little grainy for a larger print because of shooting at ISO 800 and having to do severe exposure corrections.

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