By golly, dem dare is a lotta roses! I suppose you know what kind they all are. Are they all Tea roses? Probably, and here I am drinking coffee. I think that you would put good use to a macro lens and an image stacking program. Doesn't need to be an L-series lens. There must be some sort of less-expensive macro lens in the Canon line-up. Since you already have a tripod, by your own admission, you could play with staged lighting effects while coupled to a macro lens. Then again, while serving better as a means to grandiosity in photography, specialized equipment requires set-up and deliberation and you might prefer the freedom implicit in spontaneity as provided by a workhorse kit lens. Let's see what your penchant and philosophy will be after a couple of years of having CSS in your backyard. You've got the Humber River trail embedded in your head and have delivered its treats on this forum, so now the doors are wide open and you have a new expanse to cover in detail. Am I making this sound like a responsibility? Good! My work is done and yours has just begun. Happy hunting. BTW, I know that there are many species of rose, but to me a rose by any name will smell as sweet. Oh dear, my coffee is cold, again. A keyboard and a hot coffee are incompatible.
