Betty Harkness is the name of this rose which was among several I enjoyed while visiting RHS Rosemoor earlier today. On this trip, I’d decided to use my Vivitar 90mm lens set at f/4, which gave a narrow depth of field and the ability to focus in very close. This was my most successful rose portrait, taking advantage of both those factors to fill the frame and show fine details mixed with areas of pleasing softness. In fact, although I had been planning to do some post production work, I decided that, in this case, there was nothing I wanted to change about what came straight out of the camera.