Pond Lily Carpet
Another in my series from Royal Roads University. This pond is carpeted with lilies, and when we were there was so brightly lit I could barely stand to look at it from a darker patch of shade under some conifers. I like the way the light makes it all very abstract.
The top picture is a crop from one of the three brackets that went into producing the picture below.
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Canon 5dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO200, f2.8, 1/4000th (bottom is +/- 2.0 E.V.)
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burnt embers 
Those plants are so dense that they look like something pulpy floating on the pond’s surface.
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Thanks Melinda. It was amazingly solid with the things. I can’t imagine that the pond is very healthy, but it is supporting them so perhaps it is doing fine.
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Are these the same lilies as the bug-covered ones you posted previously? If so, I would concur that the pond’s probably not all that healthy. I don’t actually KNOW anything about ponds, though, so there’s a very slight possibility that I could be wrong.
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Hi Melinda. The previous pond lily covered in bugs is in the fountain in front of the old house. It is the one with a lions head emitting water that shows in a few of the shots in the post from two days ago. http://wp.me/p1R4lY-4OR
I know nothing of ponds either, but have to wonder if it has this much vegetation growing in it how far off being a marsh or peat bog this pond must be.
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I do like these, especially the bottom photo. That has the branch at the bottom to anchor it and that’s a nice touch. And the shadows are really nice, too.
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Thanks Ken. I really like those shadows too, though in fact they are out of focus branches hanging in the foreground.
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