Most of the time this tiny cactus hides within the rocky ground cover, hoping to remain unnoticed. Once a year for a week or so, it displays a set of beautiful blossoms in an attempt to attract winged visitors, all the while bristling with sharp spines to warn off all others.

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 Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.