Lily Stamen
We went for a visit to the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific yesterday, which has an abundance of irises at the moment. This is not one of them, as was pointed out to me in the comments section below!.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, f2.8, 1/800th.
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burnt embers 
Beautiful image!
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Hi Mark – glad you like this shot!
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Really beautiful 🙂
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Thanks Lisa!
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I couldn’t tell you what plant this is exactly – it’s name is immaterial really. It’s just a clever Macro of the business end of the flower.
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Thank you Andy. I kind of agree – a view through the macro lens where the visual detail is more important than taxonomy.
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Beautiful picture but I question that it’s an iris – it has all the structures of a lily.
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Hi Marc – welcome to my blog, and thanks so much for the correction, which I have made to the body of the post, and the title as well. I don’t know what I was thinking other than I was amazed by the number of irises they had there. I must admit that when I have the macro lens on the camera my field of view can be come remarkably narrow, which is probably what happened here because I do know that these stamens don’t look like they belong to an iris. Thanks again!
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I can understand how a lot of iris could amaze you,,, as a plant morphology nut and a fan of macro photography, I had to pass along the correction. Looking forward to more of your posts!
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Thanks Marc. I have not done much macro photography later, but clearly I should be getting back into it – the summer is here, the gardens full of things that lend themselves to closeups.
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Wonderful as usual!
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Thank you Katherine!
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Thanks Katherine 🙂
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