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I played around with this trying to do something different, however I preferred it al natural, in the end I just made some minor adjustments in Raw with the exposure, contrast and tones & here you have a slightly slid Iris that has popped out of the ground a month or so too early, which means spring is coming :)
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Iris "Pond Lily" - the first new Iris to flower in my garden. This Iris is a modern hybrid and the photo shows 2 flowers - one above the other with the green of other garden plants in the background. The pink colour and wonderful frills have been bred into this flower over many generations. Irises apart from purple colours can be almost any colour you can think of , red, yellow, black, white, maroon all shades of pink ..... the colours are endless these days and catalogues offer many hundreds of Iris types for sale. They generally prefer cooler climates. Some of the best varieties fetch several hundred dollars per rhyzome. Being just north of Sydney, the climate is on the border of being acceptable, as it does stay quite warm during winter.
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The graceful, delicate Western Iris resembles three ballerinas. They are found in moist meadows 4,000 to 8,500 ft. Have a beautiful Sunday everyone.
note: I am new to western wildflowers so any ID help is much appreciated.
We are getting uncommon amounts of rain. It is difficult to even find any dry flowers in the garden.
In our conditions this Iris should flower in late winter. Yet, to our delight, it now produced two flowers completely out of season.
Mom has several old-fashioned iris in her collection. The flowers are tiny compared to most irises you see...but they're still pretty. We thought this one had died out because it hadn't flowered for a couple of years...but were very pleased to see a few blossoms this year. It's special, you see. It smells GOOD! Sort of like apple blossoms!
Taken Friday evening on a photographic stroll through the neighborhood with Beefy.
These gorgeous twin irises were just crying out for selective colouring!
Hope you are all having a super weekend!
This is from earlier this year. Just got around to editing!
Feedback/constructive criticism is always appreciated! Thanks for viewing!
Prairie Iris (a.k.a. Savanna Iris, Dixie Iris; Iris savannarum previously known as Iris hexagona) - Powerline Road, Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, 3365 Taylor Creek Rd, Christmas, Florida
Normally I would shoot a flower like this with a macro rig, but I liked the way the 600 gave me a softer image with a nice gradation of focus throughout the blossom yet enough separation to give a cool, soft, mottled BG.
I also took a vertical shot, but liked how the wide format accentuated the horizontal elements while contrasting the vertical elements nicely.