Once a year for a day or two, my Golden Torch Cactus (Echinopsis spachiana) seeks attention from winged visitors. For the rest of the year it displays rows of needles to keep away intruders . . .

This photo was taken a Hasselblad 500C with a Carl Zeiss S-Planar 1:5.6 f=120mm lens and Kowa L39•3C(UV) ø67 filter mounted on a 10mm Extension Tube using Fuji 160NS film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.