Zantedeschia fall into two main types: hardier outdoor forms, often called arum lilies, with striking white flowers; and the more tender forms, such as this one, typically with white-spotted leaves and pretty flowers in yellow, orange, pink or dark purple.

These are often called calla lilies. This one was flourishing in a neighbour's front garden and, to my mind, one of the prettiest colours!

calla lily close up

Calla lilies and hydrangeas are 2 of my favorite flowers....this was originally 2 different images, in black and white that i layered and tweeked to get the final result, which i love!.....

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Calla lily seen at Berlin Botanical Gardens.

Been trying some indoor flash shots with flowers. Used a reflector to light up the back of the petals

First photo with the new lens

spruced it up a little :)

im not thrilled with the bottom embossed stars, but I was playing around with it and by the time I realized I wasnt happy.....it was too late to take off. Oh well.

I wish you could see the calla lily color a little better. I marbled pink and white fondant for the outside, then used a tangerine for the middle.

BTW- this cake is teeny tiny too, its about the size of a can of soda. :o)

We saw many of these exotic flowers all along the Oregon and California coasts. They appeared to be right at home in the cloudy and wet weather that we found on most of our trip.

Wikipedia says that in Western Australia "it has been classified as a toxic weed and pest."

I've always found them attractive in their elegant simplicity.

Calla lily in the shade bed outside our bedroom windows.

Calla lily flower (Zantedeschia aethiopica), shot with a Kodak Z-650 camera in natural light with black backdrop. An old photo which I decided to upload now.

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Tamborine Botanic Gardens - Gold Coast - Australia.

More playing with lighting and the Hot Pink Dward Calla Lily I recently bought.

Strobist info: One hand held SB600 in a snoot to the left and slightly in front of the flower. Triggered by the pop up flash on my D90.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my strobe lit plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...

Took many pictures with different focus and blended manually in PS to get the sharpnes over a deep field. And then some sharpening an detail enhancing along with some doge and burn.

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There were a bunch of potted calla lilies on one of the counters in the store.. Couldn't resist and got the old purse camera out and shot away...

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Calla lily

Vickie's calla lillies in our back yard.

Sent from my head.

36x36" on canvas - $700

Took this image last week, lucky, as we had a wind rainstorm last night and most of the Callas were damaged or broken off.

This Calla Lily is from my garden.

Calla lilies submerged

© Julian Köpke

Here is another capture of these beautiful flowers.

Calla, pastel on canson paper, A4, 2008

Painting based on a picture from AlexEdg

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Thought I'd try another Strobist style image of some flowers since UK weather is so bad!!

I used Calla Lillies and Black Mountain Grass for this photo.

PP and reflection done in PS CS 5.1. Initial image was the flowers against a white background. I used focus-stacking (8 images) again done in PS CS 5.1

Strobist

The subjects where in a vase (not shown in in the pic)

White background:

Triflash Bracket on low-level stand

Top flash: BB Nikon SB28@1/8

Bottom Left flash: BB Nikon SB26@1/16

Bottom Right flash: BB Nikon SB28@1/16

Camera right: at slight angle, Nikon SB28@full power in silver reflective umbrella

Camera left: A3 sized white card as reflector (but I think that should have used a bigger size)

Triggered with Cactus v4

I got to pick out my Valentine's Day flowers this year! I had fun picking out flowers. Now my husband knows that I love Calla Lillies.

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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.

I found it blooming this morning in the balcony.

I bought the calla's pot with flowers in 2007.

After the flower I left the pot outside because I thought that it's "only one season" plant.

But surprisingly, in 2008 spring, the new leaves came out.

Then I just looked them....they were eaten by caterpillars.

So 2009 spring, I put the pot on the 2nd floor balcony and the leaves came out again.

But no flowers.

This year, I already learned many.

I composted them and protect them from caterpillars.

Then today it blooms!

How Happy!!! :D

Every Spring the return, and great increase of Calla Lillies in my year excites me.Their height & large individuality gives them an architectural significance. There are always some that grow as tall as I am.

This is for Caroline (The Hills Are Alive) because of her love of this flower. It's called Arum lilly where she lives, England.

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