Calla Lily
Zantedeschia aethiopica
(zan-te-DES-kee-uh)
(ee-thee-OH-pik-uh)
Synonyms: Arum Lily, Large
White Aethiopica, Varkoor
This is my little attempt at
an ‘art shot’. It is easy to get caught up in the macro world of flowers and to
a certain extent live there. That is forgetting the brilliance and beauty that
flowers can lend our lives. A single white Calla lily in a vase is a bit of an
interior design cliché but it still works. This picture (and all the black and
white flowers on this site) was shot with the monochrome setting on the camera.
No color picture of this flower exists. My only little secret is to turn the
contrast setting up to +2 on the camera menu, which seems to give a better
range of black and grey tones. The micro-Nikkor 60mm/2.8 lens and the D700
camera produced this picture.
Since it is Sunday again here
is a bonus snapshot. This seemed like a very lonely rose. All it’s neighbors
had bloomed months ago and had turned to mushy hips by now. The color and shape
of this rose was slightly distorted but beautiful in its own way.
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