Home early, a beautiful sunny evening, and the Old English rose bush is in full flower. Bliss.
Today I tried a random approach, holding the camera at arms’ length underneath the flowers, getting some lovely backlighting from the blue sky, which mainly resulted in a lot of unfocused blurs. This is one of the more successful.
With a little (very little) tweaking on the computer, more details appear. Bacon Rolls drew my attention to a group on Flickr for pictures with black backgrounds, and this one will definitely go in.