It’s always a photographer’s dream to find special natural lighting, and in this case I found it at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. It’s often a difficult task finding flowers that aren’t broken and damaged in some way – so I couldn’t help but notice how almost perfect the form of this Water Lily was. I used the backlighting of the sun to reveal just how delicate and fragile the form of the Water Lily is – perfection is transient and temporary. Click to visit my animal photography & art blog! / Email me at durberville@optushome.com.au Subscribe by Email to Natalie Manuel Photography Find me at Flickr Join my facebook group More of my work on Redbubble* /
One of my old photos “reycled” with a different treatment.
A drop of water under a lily petal :)
oil painting
this is a water lily shot with a Nikon D80 outside Gainsville’s (Florida, USA) Butterfly Museum. The light was perfect. Contemporary composition and a tiny saturation of the natural colors makes it a real eye-catcher. I have sold at least one 8×10 print at last years church bazaar, but it has also been donated twice, to Artopia, an auction benefit for AIDS Research and also as as a thank-you gift to my church’s choir director. Both times it was matted and framed. Plus, we had as many choir members from the past dozen years as we could find sign the back.
Pond of white water lilies taken in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens.
Digital photography.
Water Lily and pad on the Fish pond at Raby gardens.
My temptation to find water lilies never gonna end. This one is another lily, I have added canvas texture to it. Better viewed large. Hope all of you’ll enjoy. HDR created image, processed in CS3.
This shot was taken during the “lows” when no military aircraft were on the Navy-Dare Bombing range to complete their bombing runs. I love the way this shot turned out, especially the reflection and the lili’s shadow cast onto the lilipad just to the right. The water in these drainage culverts literally is this black, the private security firm called Blackwater, trains right near this range, hence their name I suppose.
Glass Lake – N.Y. Olympus 510 / The Importance of Honeybees / Brought here from Europe in the 1600s, honeybees have become widespread across North America and are bred commercially for their abilities to produce honey and pollinate crops—90 different farm-grown foods, including many fruits and nuts, depend on honeybees. But in recent years honeybee populations across the continent have plummeted by as much as 70 percent, and biologists are still scratching their heads as to why and what to do about the problem which they have termed “colony collapse disorder” (CCD). Chemicals May Be Killing the Honeybees / Many believe that our increasing use of chemical pesticides and herbicides, which honeybees ingest during their daily pollination rounds, are largely to blame. Commercial beehives are also subjected to direct chemical fumigation at regular intervals to ward off destructive mites. Another leading suspect is genetically modified crops, which may generate pollen with compromised nutritional value. It may be that the build-up of both synthetic chemicals and genetically modified crop pollen has reached a “tipping point,” stressing bee populations to the point of collapse. Lending credence to this theory is that organic bee colonies, where chemicals and genetically modified crops are avoided, are not experiencing the same kind of catastrophic collapses, according to the non-profit Organic Consumers Association. / Info from this site /
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Taken at our dam…theres red-pink ones and blue as well…. DebsPhotos
Water lily approx 5 in diameter flowers early spring. Nymphaea capensis
This photo was taken early morning on 20th of November 08 whilst away in Daylesford. The weather was terrible but the Lily’s were quite photogenic. / Canon 450D, 18-200mm IS Lens /
(Series 2 of 2) / Acrylic on canvas, (with gloss water highlights) 24”x36”. Available, $2400 There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. - Linda Hogan / CarrieGlennStudios.Com
This image has been published in the Photographic Society of America Journal – October 2009 Asiatic Lily refracted in a drop of water Kodak P850 w/tube adapter and 10x macro lens / Flash: Not Used / Focal Length: 36.3.. / Exposure Time: 0.050s (1/20) / Aperture: f/3.6 / ISO: 100
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A lovely, sunny day. A lovely Koi pool with lilies. What more could one ask for on a day like that? Maybe a sketch pad and some great lighting? Yep. That was it. :o) Recreated and painted in Photoshop as a watercolor. There were 5 layers to created the transparent quality and sometimes etched edges we see in watercolors. It took about four hours total time.
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