france post #3: blessed be the macro, and french flowers

As described in previous posts, we visited France in April, during a cool, wet part of the spring when many flowers begin to bloom. I combed through our photos and created this set of colorful snapshots, many of which were taken by my wife with our Canon Elph digital camera using the macro setting. We've found this setting to be quite powerful for taking cool close up shots of flowers, insects, food, basically anything you want to preserve with an extreme zoom.