I was pleasantly surprised to come across a group of irises in one of the marshy areas of Huntley Meadows Park, the nature center where I do a lot of my shooting.
It probably reveals my ignorance about flowers, but I had no idea that irises could grow in such moist conditions. Although the irises were smaller and less showy than many of the cultivated ones that I see, they were no less beautiful.
It had been raining intermittently the morning that I took this photo and you can see drops of water on some of the petals. I tried very carefully to frame this image and am pretty happy with the way that it turned out, with the blurry image of a second iris in the background repeating the shape and color of the iris in the foreground.
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Great shot. !
Gorgeous! How funny that we both posted irises, today.
Thanks. I guess it’s the flower of the season (and flowers seems so appropriate foe Mother’s Day).
I’m pretty sure you have a Blue Flag Iris here, and it’s a beauty. We have a number of them growing in the wetlands on our northern Minnesota property. How lovely they are. I really like the bokeh ghost of the other one in the background too and, in my opinion, you did very well to include it. Nice!
Thanks, Gary. This is a case in which we think very much alike. I cropped a little, but there was no way the ghost was going to be cut. I like the repetition of the green leaves too.
Nice. Native irises love growing near water.
Thanks. I checked them out again yesterday and it looks like they are actually growing in the water. It’s an area of the marsh that sometimes has water and sometimes doesn’t.
Stunning! 😀