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Prickly Baby

I mentioned in previous posts that I made a trip to Big Bend NP earlier this year.  We spent most of the daytime hours either scouting sunrise, sunset or night photography sites but we also spent a fair amount of time capturing Texas Wildflower images.  I was hiking down Cattail Falls Trail when I ran across this Engelmann’s Prickly Pear Cactus on the way to see Cattail Falls. I was particularly fond of this little prickly baby bud. I thought the red tips and the green fleshy parts were great colors.

Prickly
Engelmann’s Prickly Pear Cactus

This image was taken with my Canon EOS 5D Mark III using my EF100mm f/2.8L Macro. The camera was set on Manual mode with the aperture set at f/16, shutter speed at 1/160 at ISO 100. I used my Canon MT-24 Flash to light the subject.  This is a single image processed in Lightroom.

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