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Dahlia Days



Red Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger.

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):

Dahlia Petal

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4 Responses to “Dahlia Days”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » My Garden Fence Says:
    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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    on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 […]

  2. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » How big is my garden? Says:
    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 […]

  3. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » f/64 Says:
    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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  4. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Anemone Says:
    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 […]

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