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Since I have proclaimed February to be Iris month for our painting group, I decided to put up two more iris for members to paint, if they like. This may be downloaded by members for their use.
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Like everything else they seem to be late this year. Unless they do a LOT of growing they aren't going to be blooming anywhere near the same time as they did last year. Yes, that means this is from the archives.
LA GOUTE ET LA FEUILLE
c'est la feuille d'Aphrodite .
Sortant nue de son bain
elle déposa cette goutte d'eau
sur cette feuille qui ne demandait
qu'à s'ouvrir et à s'embellir!
Elle devint la feuille préférée
des dieux de l' Olympe!
qui la couchèrent sur le Lys
pour qu'elle d' Orme en paix
mais par manque de Bouleau
la feuille finie un Peuplier
et laissa échapper la perle ,
qui roula jusqu'au pieds d' Hermès,
il la trouva fort à son gout
et la transforma en parfum ,
Qu'il offrit à sa belle de Cadix !
Et c'est depuis ce temps lÃ
que les femmes aiment les parfums!
Domi
I believe the Iris comes in more blue shades than any other flower.
Especially the German Bearded like this one.
There are hundreds of colors and hues of Iris.
The Iris takes its name from the Greek word for ''rainbow''.
In Ancient Greece, the Greek Goddess Iris was the messenger of the gods and the keeper of the rainbow.
She acted as the link between heaven and earth.
Another reason why this flower is so ''heavenly.''
This is done with Watercolor Pencil and Ink.
This iris, which is called a re-bloomer because it blooms throughout the year, came from the garden this morning. I usually do my flower pictures with a black background. For this one, I wanted to go a different route, and use a white background, and try to make the petals more luminous. I would hate it if all of my pictures looked the same.
I placed the flower eighteen inches directly in front of a 24 inch softbox and used that for the primary illumination. That provided both the white background and the backlighting I wanted for more luminous petals. I then provided a very small amount of light from another softbox in front at 5 o'clock for fill. I used Yonguon speedlights, in manual mode in both of the softboxes. They were triggered by Tiny Triggers from scottrobertstudio.com.
Other iris pictures that I've taken over the years, can be seen in my Iris set (or all places). www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...
Other plants and flowers 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/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
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Iris is a genus of 260–300[1][2] species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species.[3] As well as being the scientific name, iris is also very widely used as a common name for all Iris species, though some plants called thus belong to other closely related genera. A common name for some species is 'flags', while the plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as 'junos', particularly in horticulture. It is a popular garden flower. (Wiki)
Unaltered, uncut, and probably boring since I've uploaded pictures of this kind of flower several times. However, I just love its colors. The middle reminds me of deep, dark Texas storm clouds and the yellow? The sunshine that sometimes streams around the DEEP, dark storm clouds.
It's irises this week over at the Flower Themes group. Shoot some if you can or look in your archives but please come join us there. Any kind of iris is welcome this week!.