A pink flower of a rhododendron

I took this photo of a rhododendron flower in the backyard where this rhododendron was in a pot. I chose to put a flower in the photo making it a close-up. It is not a macro photo, for that you can see too much of the flowers around it. You do see the stamens and pistil inside the flower as well. I don't know which rhododendron species it is, but it is an early flowering species that blooms in early spring. If you look closely, you can still see drops of rain on the other flowers. To take this photo I used an 85mm macro lens, in post-processing I cropped the photo to 3:4 ratio. Otherwise, I took this one out of hand.

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Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk, where I still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own, currently I use a Nikon D7200. Every now and then I also use 1 or 2 Nikon SB700 reportage flash units to highlight a subject. From the beginning I mainly do nature photography, it is mainly landscapes I photograph, the Veluwe woods around Harderwijk being a perfect starting point for this. Occasionally I do macro photography and sometimes I photograph wildlife. Occasionally, I also do portraits of people, which can be commissioned or free work.

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