Calla 001

One of my favourite flowers.

Callas in a wall vase on the exterior of a restaurant in Little Italy, 129 Mulberry St., New York City. The flowers may be artificial.

Calla

Calla lily. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

This is the best macro I've ever taken with my new camera.

Deadheads from this year's calla lillies on my back porch. I could let them go, and brought them into the studio, recently, for a few last still life shots. The lighting for this series is one studio light Through the translucent white umbrella, with some fill from stray bouncing light and from a reflector on the opposite side from the main light That main light was kept low to wash across the tops for the texture and leave more 3-D modelling in the subject.

The backgrounds were inexpensive foam sheets from crafts departments, which I selected with Photoshop's "Select/Color Range" tool, and manipulated to taste.

Zantedeschia aethiopica (common names Lily of the Nile, Calla lily, Easter lily, Arum lily); syn. Calla aethiopica L., Richardia africana Kunth, Richardia aethiopica (L.) Spreng., Colocasia aethiopica (L.) Spreng. ex Link) is a species in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Monocots

Order: Alismatales

Family: Araceae

Subfamily: Aroideae

Tribe: Zantedeschieae

Genus: Zantedeschia

Species: Z. aethiopica

Binomial name

Zantedeschia aethiopica

Calla palustris

Thanks to B.C., amy and others for inspiration.

In my yard

I recently discovered my love for calla lilies and frankly I think they deserve their own album.

this one is better/best of the lot so far. Needs smoother paper and maybe a smidgen less exposure.

Calla.

I promise I'll try to contain myself, but these flowers are the most inviting piece of nature for photographers and right now they're popping up all over our neighborhood. I really need to take some pictures of people!

calla lily wedding farm

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White Calla Lilly taken in the Eden Project in Cornwall

near Hwy 1 on the northern California coast

Zantedeschia aethiopica

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Calla lillies

Macro of Calla Lily.

Calla Lilies along the Big Sur coast in California.

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'Garnet Glow' Zantedeschia (Calla lily) with diamontie detail

Springtime is here and the sap is rising ........

Pink calla lily detailing flower with water drop against black background

Growing across the street from me!

single orange calla lily