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Although my garden is a wreck, and the weeds are now taller than I am, and it's all full of chiggers, at least my Calla Lilies, which I grow in pots, put on a good show this year.
Rather heavily edited. But they so look so grand in the setting sun.
I haven't gotten much done on all the work I have to accomplish this summer. Things keep happening which take up my time... like, our toilet broke, we finally got a new microwave installed and it is hanging crooked, the pool pump broke, and now my car is leaking gas and it will be days before my garage can come pick it up.
So, I'll have to keep on skipping commenting on many nights, to get a bit more time for getting things done.
Oh, and this was a Focus Stack of about 25 images, so I am putting it into the 100x group.
Calla lilies are said to come from the ancient god Hera, the wife of Zeus. In the story, Zeus brought Hercules to nurse from his wife while she was sleeping. He wanted his son to have the strength of the gods. Hera awoke and pushed the baby away from her. Drops of milk flew across the sky creating the milky way and everywhere they landed on earth, calla lilies bloomed.
(Also known as Arum Lily)
I decided to do a little macro work with this lily that we happened to have in the house.
Every year at this time I gather a few wild Calla Lilies from the coast and spend hours having creative time.
Calla macro.
Press "L" to open this photo in the light box.
My other flower photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/harrivayrynen/sets/72157605911585268/
Ah! Calla Lilies again. What can I say, The flower and the female body must have been designed to be together :-)
This is a dwarf Calla lily plant that I bought today to exploit. I think that these flowers and the epiphyllum flowers are probably my favorite ones to photograph.
Lighting stuff: I wanted to show the translucent qualities of the beautiful leaves so I backlit them with a YN560-III in a rogue grid behind the plant at camera right and a Strobie 130 in a Rogue grid behind the plant at camera left. I set the lights up one at a time and adjusted their output and position until it looked right on my lcd screen. As a bonus, I got some rim lighting. Once the back lighting was established, I set up the fill lighting with a YN560-II in a softbox at camera right pointing at the center of the plant, and a YN560 in a 24 inch soft box at camera left pointing at the center. All strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other Calla Lily pictures are in my Calla Lilly set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Calla palustris
Die Drachenwurz (Calla palustris), auch Sumpf-Calla, Sumpfkalla, Schlangenwurz, Schlangenkraut, Sumpf-Schlangenwurz oder Schweinsohr genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Aronstabgewächse (Araceae). Sie ist die einzige Art der Gattung Calla und der Unterfamilie Calloideae. Der botanische Name wird gebildet aus dem griechischen Wort, kallos = schön und palustris aus dem lateinischen Wort paluster = sumpfig.
Quelle: Wikipedia.org
The Calla Lillies are in Bloom........ Canon Powershot -point and shoot. Shot wide and vertical. No crop. Walmart garden department.
Lit with two SB-600 strobes. One was positioned behind the flower with a snoot on it, and the other was placed above and to the left in a softbox. I took many different exposures and just varied the lighting ratios until I got the look that I wanted.
Other Calla Lilies that I have exploited, can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/
Like most photographs, it looks better large. Please press "L" if you'd like to see it that way.
....these beautiful flowers are growing in an almost forgotten part of my back garden,
up against a garden shed. The dark purple wall is actually the back of a feature wall,
adjacent to the shed......which makes for a lovely backdrop..!
(Explored - best position #9)
Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6 L IS, development in Lightroom.
Calla palustris - Marsh Calla - Bog Arum - Sumpf-Calla - Slangenwortel - Calla des marais - Missne - Czermień błotna - ...
Wikipedia (Edited): "Białowieża Forest is a forest on the border between Belarus and Poland. It is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal. UNESCO . . . designated the Polish Biosphere Reserve Białowieża in 1976 and the Belarusian Biosphere Reserve Biełavieskaja pušča in 1993. . . .
Large-scale logging started in 2017. 190 000 m³ of wood (160 000 to 180 000 trees) was felled, the largest volume of logging since 1988. The Polish government has ignored pleas from UNESCO to stop logging the old-growth parts of the forest, as well as a court order of the European Court of Justice to halt the logging activities. The final verdict fell on 17 April 2018, ruling that EU law has been infringed."
These photographs were taken in 2009; I shall not be revisiting, given the situation. UNESCO is monitoring: "The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/21/44.COM/7B.Add,
Recalling Decision 43 COM 7B.14, adopted at its 43rd session (Baku, 2019),
Notes with satisfaction that forest management activities in the property, including logging, have remained at a very low scale, and only limited to the active management zone, as recommended by the 2018 Reactive Monitoring mission; . . . " whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7816 (accessed 2023.06.20)
Zantedeschia aethiopica, commonly known as calla lily and arum lily, is a species in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland
Czermień błotna - Drachenwurz (Sumpf-Calla, Sumpfkalla, Schlangenwurz, Schlangenkraut, Sumpf-Schlangenwurz, Schweinsohr - Calla palustris
CALLA EXPERIMENT
This was a very pretty watercolor, until I got my 'freak on' and morphed into my ''EXPERIMENTAL MODE''....I simply went wild with that ELEGANT WRITER PEN and a little Pastel too, on top of my watercolor. And if you think Watercolor brings lots of fun surprises...you should try the Elegant Writer Pen...:) ♥
I thought I would put this little tutorial about the Elegant Writer Pen up again...:)
ELEGANT WRITER...made by...www.speedballart.com
I use mostly size 1.3mm Extra Fine
I bought mine at my local Hobby Lobby arts & crafts store, near the Calligraphy section.
They are available online at various art sources also.
The cost is around three dollars.
There are several ways to use these pens in sketching/painting.
I usually draw first in pencil, then very lightly go over the pencil line with the pen, skipping some of them, not to overdo the ink.
I then barely touch the edge of the ink line with a wet(with water) brush which results in an explosion of the ink line.
You can also thoroughly wet the ink for another effect.
Once the ink has been wet with water and dried it will not ''explode'' again.
Once it dries you can add more ink if needed...and repeat procedures.
You can add watercolor after the ink has dried, or even before...but be careful doing this as ''mud'' comes easily...:)
You'll want to experiment and play with it before using it on a ''serious'' sketch or painting...:)
I have a ''set'' on my page here for all my Elegant Writer sketches & paintings.
Karlyn Holman has some wonderful examples and info. in her most recent book ''WATERCOLOR WITHOUT BOUNDARIES''...One of my favorite Art books of all time...♥♥♥