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Oriental Tigerlily
by jenndes

If you look closely (in the “large” view) you’ll notice that some of the black spots are actually ants. Summer 2007 – Rotterdam, NY / One of my girlfriend’s parents purchased a home that was owned by a Master Gardener and neither of them gardened. They asked me to come and tell them what their plants were, thin some out and feel free to photograph them. After a few hours, I had enough plants to fill half my garden and had filled up my photo cards, not to mention I couldn’t help but trim one of their trees while their backs were turned. I’ve only seen this Oriental Tigerlily at this garden and one other – both having been planted by Master Gardeners. I didn’t have the heart to dig any of them up. I had to lay on my back to shoot this as the blooms point downward.
Ready for a Close-up
by Sharon Ulrich
Blood of the Earth
by Claire McAdams

© Claire McAdams / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For less expensive high quality prints of this photo, click here This shot was taken in the botanical gardens in NYC. It is one of my favorite flower shots.
Death Lily
by RoughDiamond

Larger version :)
Water Lily
by Tamara Mason

This is a tiger lily with a little flare. I added the flood filter in photoshop.
Sacred Lotus
by Leeo

Nelumbo nucifera – The Sacred Lotus is steeped in symbolism & meaning in both Hindu & Buddhist cultures. Much of the plant is edible, while the petals have a unique self cleaning system. / / ” Upon a heap of rubbish in the roadside ditch / Blooms a Lotus fragrant & pleasing” / / Buddha, Dhammapada 58 / / / /
Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
by Barbara Sparhawk

Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
Lily of the Valley
by M G Pettett

This plant is in flower now (mid May) in North Cornwall. It likes growing here under trees, especially conifers, though this one is in the open which is probably why it hasn’t spread as rapidly as it is supposed to. Pentax K10D.
Sun burst
by Kimberley Davitt

Taken today 14th June 2008 It has been a wonderful day today Taken with a panasinic lumix dcm fz18 / 18x optical zoom +super macro The left hand image has been toned down with serpia below is as it was taken. Our other account please go view Davitt photography IPA / Davitt.photography@hotmail.co.uk .
Innocent
by JulieM

Very tiny orange-eyed green tree frog in an Arum lily
Lily pond
by Rosina Lamberti

Giappone Series / Bushfire sunset / / Lily pond / / Mill Pond / / Wretchedness / Giappone Series / Bushfire sunset / / Lily pond / / Mill Pond / / Wretchedness / 20×16” matted print – art show / 20×16” framed print -client / 10×8” framed print
Pink
by AnaCBStudio

Digital Art. All the Material in this Gallery is Copyrighted & May not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my permission. / © AnaCBStudio: Using this Image for any purpose without my prior permission, may lead to legal action. All Rights Reserved. I have used Photo light box
One More Poison Kiss...
by myoriginalsin

Full view please :) Stock Photo Credit / Background and Pond / Model / Snakes / Waterlilies If you like this piece, please check out: / / /
Waterlily
by Foxfires

© Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC Terms of Use before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use http://foxfires.deviantart.com/journal/15905899/ / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- “Broad water-lilies lay tremulously, / And starry river-buds glimmered by, / And around them the soft stream did glide and dance / With a motion of sweet sound and radiance…” – Percy Bysshe Shelley Thanks to my good friend M.J. Ranum for the gorgeous model!! NOTE I’ve been going through some of my older works – this dates back a couple of years ago! Figured I would let them see the light of day. :D
Lily Dream
by Lucindawind

I cant think of a name thats ok for this ….I used fractalius and flood on this
Lotus Pond
by Carmen Cilliers

Painted for an exhibition called “Inspired By Nature”. Feel free to come along if you are in Perth… here are the details: “You and a guest are invited to attend the opening night function of / Inspired by Nature, Paintings by Interactive Arts Members - / Vivian Bonder, Carmen Cilliers, Ruth Jeffery, Stacy Kershaw, Ann Land, Narelle Manser-Smith,Fiona McKay, Caroline McGrath, Anthony MacLeod, Kay Merrin, Carol Scott, Julie Sutherland. / Wed 28 January 2009, 6 – 8pm / Wine Tastings by Arimia Wines / Venue (old MOKKA store) 890a Beaufort Street INGLEWOOD This painting is acrylic on canvas and measures approx 40×75cm For those of you who read my journal recently and how chuffed I was about getting a water lily in my new fishpond… the inspiration is pretty obvious. Also, it was good to experiment using the acrylic in a different way – and I love the spiritual symbolism of the lotus flower.
Water Lilies
by Claire Farley

Nikon D90 55-200mm VR / F/8 1/250sec Played with big time in Photoshop. Orginal shot taken in a pond around lunchtime /
Submission to colour
by Vasile Stan
"3 Graces: Thalia (flowering)" - section 2 of Triptych
by Alice McMahon White

This work was featured in the groups 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture and Out of the Past. Grace # 2 of 3 , Charcoal on Mylar film, 30×20” from the “Black Butterfly: The Muse” series. The 3 Graces: Aglaia (radiance) Euphrosyne (joy) Thalia (flowering) It was the poet Hesiod who named the Graces in his Theogony: “Then Eurynome, Ocean’s fair daughter, bore to Zeus the three Graces, all fair-cheeked, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and shapely Thalia; their alluring eyes glance from under their brows, and from their eyelids drips desire that unstrings the limbs.” From a reference photo by Rolling Stone magazine photographer Baron Wolman, groupie Sally Mann, San Francisco, Nov. 1968. (No relation to the photographer of the same name) Sally married Jefferson Airplane’s Spencer Dryden in 1970. Here is a quote from Baron about the groupies: “As concert promoter Bill Graham has given me all access to any of the concerts he produced, I spent quite a bit of time backstage with the bands, their roadies and their women. What fascinated me were the lengths to which the women, the groupies, went to prepare themselves for their backstage appearances. Because I also wanted an excuse to photograph them, I suggested to Jann they might make an interesting story. He agreed and Rolling Stone Magazine No. 27 became known as “the groupie issue.” It was widely promoted, read and commented upon, even turned into a book.” -Baron Wolman I saw these photos in an old book picked up at a resale shop. I fell in love with the groupies, and Baron was so gracious to allow me to use them for the drawings. The feminine effect of the references are enhanced with the flowers and butterflies. In this case, I decided to draw Sally holding the lilies, as she married soon after the photo was taken. It’s also about peace & love & hippie-ness, baby. :) While the rest of the models I’ve used in the series are in the arts themselves, I was intrigued with the idea of groupies – and their intrigue with rock & roll artists of the late 1960’s. It seems to me they were using their own bodies and persona as an art form to attract their artistic “muses.” I guess you could consider some of the works in my Black Butterfly series “Cover Tunes.” I believe the borrowed references are vital to the series to relate the idea of inspiration, and its relation to talent and celebrity. These “tunes” well deserve a stylish, honorable replay. Many thanks to the talented people who have loaned their vision of the muse to aid me in illustrating my ideas.
Pastels
by Colleen Farrell

Featured in The Woman Photographer and Still Life and Food Photography – thank you! Featured on the redbubble home page Dec 17, 2009.
On Enchanted Pond'...
by valzart

…hey ho said Roly ,,,???Solved by sweet Trudi…Trudis images ..this is the first of a new series am creating called ‘Tales o’ the Riverbank’ & can’t wait to see the titles you come up with in your wondrous imaginationz woot lol! .ON THE RIVERBANK’ / a frog sits on leaf / water lilies dance / a dragonfly comes by / a riverbank’s romance / little fish are swimming / toads hop around / birds fly overhead / there’s a croaking sound / peaceful is the river / with water flowing free / ripples follow ripples / come …..dance with me / on the riverbank.. ...this enchanting poem written by sweet Sally Omar ....a first experimental creation using a photograph I took of the sky altered the colour & fractaliused it, layered on the seperate photos of lillies/Dragonfly& Toad teehee! wot fun eh? inspired by the book’. .Save the wildlife ...
~On Lotus Pond~
by ccwri

I am so happy to see the Lotus blooming on our 1 acre pond, planted these last year as seedlings. They are now filled with hundreds of buds, and blossoms!! / Most everything else is withering in the hot summer sun, so I find myself looking these to death! LOL! / / July 17 2009 Lotus, elumbo nucifera flower A common misconception is referring to the lotus as a water-lily (Nymphaea), an entirely different plant as can be seen from the centre of the flower, which clearly lacks the structure that goes on to form the distinctive circular seed pod in the Nelumbo nucifera. It should also be noted that water-lilies come in colors of white to yellow where as the lotus only in hues of pink. / NOW THIS IS SOMETNING I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE LOTUS! / When I purchased the three seedling the person at the nercery told me one was red, one white, one pink, they were all pink! So I am now just really happy I purchased a true Lotus! / The reason I purchased seedlings is because a mature plant is around $70.00! OUCH!!!!!!!!! A bit steep for this country bumpkin :O) / The roots of Nelumbo nucifera are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom, while the leaves float on top of the water surface. The flowers are usually found on thick stems rising several centimeters above the water. The plant normally grows up to a height of about 150 cm and a horizontal spread of up to 3 meters, but some unverified reports place the height as high as over 5 meters. The leaves may be as large as 60 cm in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter. / The distinctive dried seed heads, which resemble the spouts of watering cansphoto, are widely sold throughout the world for decorative purposes and for dried flower arranging. MORE INTERESTING FACTS! The flowers, seeds, young leaves, and “roots” (rhizomes) are all edible. In Asia, the petals are used sometimes for garnish, while the large leaves are used as a wrap for food. In Korea, the leaves and petals are used as a tisane. Yeonkkotcha is made with dried petals of white lotus and yeonipcha is made with the leaves. The rhizome (called ǒu in pinyin Chinese, ngau in Cantonese, bhe in Hindi, renkon (in Japanese), yeongeun ( in Korean) is used as a vegetable in soups, deep-fried, stir-fried, and braised dishes. Petals, leaves, and rhizome can also all be eaten raw, but there is a risk of parasite transmission (e.g., Fasciolopsis buski): it is therefore recommended that they be cooked before eating. / Lotus rootlets are often pickled with rice vinegar, sugar, chili and/or garlic. It has a crunchy texture with sweet-tangy flavours. In Asian cuisine, it is popular with salad, prawns, seasame oil and/or coriander leaves. Lotus roots have been found to be rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, phosphorus, copper, and manganese, while very low in saturated fat.[citation needed] The stamens can be dried and made into a fragrant herbal tea called liánhuā cha in Chinese, or (particularly in Vietnam)[citation needed] used to impart a scent to tea leaves. The lotus seeds or nuts (called liánzĭ, 蓮子; or xian liánzĭ, in Chinese) are quite versatile, and can be eaten raw or dried and popped like popcorn, phool makhana. They can also be boiled until soft and made into a paste, or boiled with dried longans and rock sugar to make a tong sui (sweet soup). Combined with sugar, lotus seed paste becomes one of the most common ingredients used in pastries such as mooncakes, daifuku, and rice flour pudding. Various parts of the lotus are also used in traditional Asian herbal medicine. Borrowed from: / Wikipedia on line free dictionary These are flowering by the hundreds on the pond, and I am shooting them todeath!!!!!!! / Can you ever have too many shots of such a gorgeous flower? / I had no idea I had purchased a plant with so many food, and madicinal values!!!!
Late Day Lily
by Lois Bryan

Featured in Out Of The Past July 31, 2009. I’d like to dedicate this to my friend Paul Woloschuk whose interest in textures inspired me to create a new floral / texture!! Thank you, Paul!!! A lily in my garden catching the last rays of sunlight on a summer’s evening. Original image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 60mm macro/ micro Nikon lens on July 6, 2009. Shutter was at 1/135, aperture was f/13.0, exp -.33, iso 400. Texture image applied in Photoshop. textures courtesy of Ghostbones on Flickr
Open Heart
by shawie