
The start of Summer or the end of Spring...I'll let you decide.
The water lilies are in flower at the moment. The lotus flowers and their circular floating leaves have such strong contrasting shapes and colours that I was curious to see what they would look like as a mono coloured photo.
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@Nataly: Thanks Nataly, I now know why wedding photography is supposed to be so difficult and why so many of them choose cameras with high dynamic range - taking a photo of a white subject against a dark background makes it very difficult to get the exposure right.
@Margie: Thanks Margie!
@Ana Lúcia: Hi Ana...no it's a real water lily with it's lotus flower.
@Lorraine: Hi Lorraine...thanks for that!
@Alun Lambert: Thanks Alun!
@pierre: Thanks very much Pierre!
@Cheryl: Thanks Cheryl!
@IanSmith: Hi Ian...yes I know it seems like an unusual thing to want to do but that was the whole point really - I've seen these beautiful flowers in real life and in colour photos so many times before that I'd started to take them for granted.
Converting this photo to mono made me look at the plant much more closely and in a more detailed way that I hadn't done before.
@Japanalia: Hi Gabriella (and thanks for the correction!)
@Viewfinder: Thanks very much Glenn....it was that inky blackness against the white of the flower that I found really interesting!
@Jim: Thanks Jim!
@Oswegan: Thanks Scott!
@MadScientist: Thanks very much!
NIKON D40
1/400 second
F/5.6
ISO 200
82 mm (35mm equiv.)