Iris Contrasts
More flowers from our recent visit to the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific. I think these are all irises, but please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
I liked the wide ranging variety at the garden – these are just a small sample of what was on offer a couple of weeks ago.
Other photos from that visit can be see here.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO100.
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burnt embers 
While I am partial to purple irises, the first photo in this series is stunning. This flower works well as a deconstructed photo subject.
peace
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Hi Laura – thanks so much for dropping by and commenting. I am glad you like that photo. The deconstruction that comes with macro is one of the things that fascinates me. It is easy to fill the camera with completely unfamiliar things, especially if using a 2x or 5x macro lens.
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Top one is one of your best ever pics, in my ever so humble opinion! The last one of the yellow iris looks like the head and beak of an exotic pre-historic bird!
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Well thank you Katherine – I am glad you rate it so highly. It is a particularly pleasing way to view irises – I have posted a similar shot a year or so ago from a blue iris, but the colours in this one make it a better shot I think.
Pre-historic birds seems to be a strange thing to visualise in a flower, but since you said such nice things about my other photo, I won’t comment further 🙂
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Tee hee. I can still see it, so it wasn’t anything I’d consumed on the day!
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Ha! Not even what I was thinking. And of course, you would not consume such a mind altering substance more than once, let alone on the day of publication, and then randomly and coincidentally on the day I finally get around to replying.
Since that confluence of accidents seems so unlikely, it must be something else….
Are you part alien by any chance? Perhaps with faceted eyes? That could explain it. I have never been to Australia but I imagine there could be quite a few people with faceted eyes down under.
In fact, perhaps that is why you like photobooth strips so much; your special eyes allow you to look at multiple images at the same time. So many things come together with this explanation. I think Occam and his razor would approve.
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Wow, Mr E! I thought I was the mad one in this conversation! You will jsut have to come to Oz to see what is what down here. I like your photobooth theory…
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If this keeps up, I might have to visit wearing body armor.
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