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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
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.
Fancy Iris. We got these bulbs as a gift from a dear friend who lived near the famous Presby Iris Gardens in Upper Montclair, NJ.
Voigtlander Makro Apo-Lanthar 125mm f2.5 SL
Purple Iris, which has more deeply ruffled edges to it than the two other Irises pictured here.
Iris, a Greek word for rainbow is a perennial herb that grows from rhizomes or bulbs. There are over 300 species of Irises including the three above German Bearded Irises, which are the most common variety found in gardens.
ISO200, aperture f/8, exposure .001 seconds (1/1000) focal length 110mm
The folded iris bud
So compact, so pointed,
A miracle of packaging.
A miracle too, the iris open --
Geometric and complex.
----Lilly Grebanier
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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.
I get my wife a bouquet every week (maybe longer, if they last ;) ) Keeps her happy and gives me subjects for my photos :) A win-win situation :)
The Iris takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, which is also the name for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris.
Dedicated to Matthew Bowers.
16/9/1969 - 9/4/1997
Matthew was a beautiful young man who died nine years ago today.
he was the treasured son of my cousin Helen and her husband Peter .
This bloomed outside "Arco Iris" (the house in Spain where Matt is remembered) right on cue. We didn't even know it was growing there.
RECKLESS ABANDON (Keith Keppel, R. 2009). Sdlg. 04-147A. TB, 38” (97 cm), M. Standards center sulphur to citron yellow (M&P 10-J-1/2) changing to warm white texture veined yellow toward outer portion, narrow 1/8" dandelion (9-L-4/5) edge; crests dandelion (9-L-4); falls burgundy black (much deeper than 56-H-12), large central area white to cream strongly veined burgundy black; beards solid deep chrome to cadmium yellow (9-L-7/8). Blyth L304-1, 'Platinum Class' sib, X 'Pirate Ahoy'. Keppel 2010. HM 2012.
PREMIO FIRENZE 2012 : 2° - PREMIO DELLA REGIONE TOSCANA