Dahlia Days
Dahlias are interesting me lately. I love their symmetry, flamboyance, and elegance. I photographed this red dwarf dahlia head-on with my 105mm macro lens at an ISO of 100 and an exposure of 1.3 seconds and f/36.
Here’s an extreme close-up of a Dalia petal (from this dalhia, planted in my front garden):
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June 27th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
[...] s in the same location reflect our garden fence—as in this photo of water drops on a dahlia.
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July 13th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
[...] photograph. Only the front garden behind its curved fence is truly mine: I plant poppies, dahlias, roses, echinacea, leucospermum, hellebores—whatever I want to photograph. My garden has [...]
July 27th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
[...] y. Nationnal Geographic (and others) get this one wrong. More dahlia photos: Wet Dahlia, Dahlia Days, my Dahlia set on Flickr.
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September 11th, 2007 at 11:40 am
[...] ight and Exposure, I couldn’t resist cutting some flowers from the garden, including dahlias and this anemone. With the cut flowers in water, I just had to photograph them. I used natural [...]