The saguaro cactus's fruit ripens in June after the white flower petals fall off_image #2

The saguaro cactus's fruit ripens in June. After the white flower petals drop off, the fruit enlarges and splits open to reveal the red pulp and black seeds. The slides in this collection were filmed on Kodachrome 64 film. In 2003 the slides were scanned on a Minolta Dimage Multiscan Pro at 48 bit color. Each TIFF scan was 11.68 inches by 7.88 inches with a resolution of 300 ppi. The file size was approx. 47.4 MB. In Nov 2006, the original TIFF scans were cropped, color corrected, resized to 6.08 inches by 8.89 inches with a resolution of 72 ppi and converted to JPEGs using ACDSee, v8.0.