[Leica] Img: Violet Bud

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

I like taking photos of flowers, somebody else's. But I'm very bad at  
growing my own. This photo is of an African Violet bud from a plant I  
bought last year to experiment with Ultra violet photography. Well  
the flower stopped flowering after I had the plant about a week and  
never flowered again until this bud came out a couple of days ago.

So I hurried up and took a photo of it before the bud fell off or the  
flower died or something else bad.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Flowers/Violet.jpg.html>
or
http://tinyurl.com/33v7en

The photo was taken with the 90mm Macro-Elmar mounted on a Canon 5D  
with the help of a Canon to R adapter mounted on the Leica R to M  
adapter 14167. I also added the macro adapter with the googles to add  
a little more extension to the lens.

Here is the Ultra violet shot of the same flower taken last year.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/UV/UV_1.jpg.html>
or
http://tinyurl.com/3b4l46

This photo was taken in a more conventional manner with a Nikon D2X,  
bellows, enlarging lens and a B+W 403 UV filter and a black light.

Thanks for looking,
Len