Three Faces of Eve
Though these very delicate and pretty little yellow Tricoryne elatior (Yellow Rush Lily) are fairly common, finding three flowers so close together to make a good composition is a rare find, especially with the three faces at different angles to each other.
Photographed along a track at Grant’s Head, Bonny Hills, NSW, Australia, on an overcast spring afternoon, they were close to the ground out of the breeze. The problem that created was that the background was so close that even the large aperture and shallow depth of field did not knock it out sufficiently so I made the exposure for the brightest petal to darken the background as much as possible.
Fuji S9600: RAW, Super Macro, f/3.2 @ 1/1600sec, Manual focus, Tripod, Timer.
Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3.
Visit the Aussie Wildflower collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more native floral delights.
UPDATE: 11-8-09
These brilliant yellow wildflowers were awarded a MERIT and JUDGE’S CHOICE in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s July 2009 Open Competition in the Small Print Section.
Enjoy!
WILDFLOWERS: LILIES
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Tricoryne elatior
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Kristina K
hi dennis, we have these growing every where at the moment, along with the other wild flowers on my site..lol..great capture my friend :)) k
Dennis Gay replied
G’day Kristina,
So nice to see you out along the Grant’s Head track on my wildflower hunt and that you are the very first Bubbler to comment on my tripple whammy yellow lilies.
Thank you so much for your encouraging ”...great…” wrap for my native floral photographic efforts.
I have noticed over the past springtimes here that each spring sees a couple of different species being more dominant. Last spring in this area it was the Common Fringed Lilies that were dominant. This year it is these yellow beauties. All part of Nature’s cycle I suppose. 8-)
GB
Dennis
kalaryder
They are lovely Dennis, I find yellow is very hard to capture on my camera. The detail of the centres is wonderful
Dennis Gay replied
G’day Kala,
So nice to see you out along the Grant’s Head track on my wildflower hunt and that you have spotted my triple whammy yellow lilies.
Thank you so much for your encouraging ”…detail…is wonderful” wrap for my native floral photographic efforts.
GB
Dennis
Dennis Rubin IPA
Nice capture, like the triangular comp and the use of great depth of field, well done, Mr. Gay!
Dennis Gay replied
G’day DR,
So nice to see you out along the Grant’s Head track on my wildflower hunt and that you have spotted my triple whammy yellow lilies.
Thank you so much for your most encouraging ”…well done…” wrap for my native floral photographic efforts.
GB
Dennis
Dennis Gay
G’day Robert Elliott …. wherever you are …..,
Thank you for the honour of adding this work to your favourites. I can only assume by this action that you like it. Please fell free to return any time to let me know just what it is you like about it.
GB
Dennis
Dennis Gay
UPDATE: 11-8-09
These brilliany yellow wildflowers were awarded a MERIT and JUDGE’S CHOICE in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s July 2009 Open Competition in the Small Print Section.
Heaps big thanks to all the bubblers who have supported this work. Without such encouragement and support it may still well be buried somewhere deep in my hard drive never to see the light of competition.
GB
Dennis