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Take Feb. 4, 2006 -- the warm winter has fulled the flowers in to blooming early this year. It had just rained.
You may notice it's a little dark, that is because I need a macro ringlight and I will soon purchase one. I shot this one at 1/50 I think, so it came out like this. I can live with it but I need to shed a little light on my subjects.....have a good one! View On Black
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Kasperek
1996
Tall Bearded Iris
Photographed at White Rock Gardens, Benton, Arkansas, a private iris and daylily display garden
Someday I am going to get myself a macro lens so that I can get my camera right up in a flower's face and photograph the individual water droplets.
People will marvel over my picture of an individual water droplet on the petal of an iris. They will assume that it somehow has artistic merit if they cannot quite figure it out what it is. I can give it a pretentious title like, "An Indictment on Man's Indifference to Nature."
Then I would pull it down and have a hissy fit if somebody reblogged it, even though I posted it under a Creative Commons license.
But I don't have a macro lens, so this is just a flower with water droplets. And spider webs.
In the confines of Saint-Paul, Vincent VanGogh worked in the men's garden. Since his last depression attack in Arles, Vincent did not feel like painting but soon he began again in the spring with the irises. From his letters, "I am able to paint at last - I am at peace here, as I was at the hospital at Arles" Oh Vinny, my heart goes out to you. And yet he always had sunny yellow in his paintings. He strove for that light to illuminate his life but so often the dark came to him. I painted my own walls in yellow throughout my house in remembrance of him.