Playing with expensive toys

As an early 30th birthday present, Stephanie signed me up for a digital photography class next week. My father-in-law was nice enough to loan me his new digital SLR camera for the class. I'll also take my own camera to the class, but someday, I'd like to upgrade to a dSLR, and I probably won't get a chance to take another class like this anytime soon, so I figured it was worth learning on some high end equipment.

This week, I'm trying to take a few shots with the camera so that I'm more comfortable with it next week. These are some flowers I bought for Steph. I just snapped 75 shots or so in our dining room, and this is one of them.

I like this shot quite a bit. I think the one white petal is a particularly nice feature. The black background isn't a photoshop addition. I just shot it on a dark background.