The saguaro cactus, the single most famous plant we have here in Arizona, can grow as high as 66 feet. Its branches are shaped liked candelabra, and every May those branches sport a crown of blossoms. These branches are from a single saguaro that is growing only a few hundred feet from my home. It is centuries old, and I wanted to stress its growth and scale in an incongruous way. I place the afternoon sun directly behind one of its blossoming branches to create a halo effect. I use a low vantage point and shoot almost straight up into the heart of the cactus, making its branches seem more massive at the bottom than at the top. The sun abstracts the huge branches, stressing the blossoms, which are splayed like giant hands on each branch. This saguaro almost seems human, a giant gleefully celebrating life.