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Nice pics, I took a couple around the same time. It really was quite loverly.

Cheers. Yours are excellent. I do have some closeups from previous years (plus zillions from the Flower Show in transparencies form), but tried to convey the carpet type effect in this case.

Another from 2005 (haven't worked out how to rotate them on this website...):

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They were taken with a now 10-year-old 2Mp Minolta E203 which has a cracking x3 zoom lens and not current Nikon DSLR.