focal length 55mm
handheld at 1/40 sec... not too bad!
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later - 12/20/2005 - looking at this now, it's easy for me to see why this did so poorly. Aside from not being a macro shot, which I knew at the time I submitted it, the cropping is poor and the processing is coarse.
I was still in the middle of being on a road trip, and couldn't properly devote the time to editing the pictures; I was too busy taking them and doing other things. I shouldn't have submitted this at all.
I have since re-edited this picture, with the hope of redeeming it somewhat and better expressing what I was trying to capture in the first place.
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