This is a picture of a Gardenia blossom taken in our front yard
early one Sunday morning. It was after sunrise but the sun was still
behind the trees and it was cloudy. That produced the diffuse, cool blue
lighting that makes the leaves look so dark and the blossom so soft.
Click on the picture to see a larger, more detailed rendition that's around a quarter of a megabyte in size.
Technical details: Fuji Superia 400-speed print film, Pentax ZX-M,
50mm f/2 lens, 1/60 second at f/8 aperture, scanned onto Photo-CD.