Saturday, 4 August 2007

The Blossom of the Pond [Water Lily Flower]

Pink water lily with water droplets in pond
pink water lily with yellow center (centre) of flower, and water droplets on it's light pink petals and water lily-pads in the pond
This Water Lily blossom is yet another example of nature's wondrous beauty. As with all flowers of this sort, the soft pink petals seem to serve as a showcase for the bright yellow center of the flower. Each petal has a delicate adornment of water droplets which help to bring time and depth to the photo. The background of lily-pads help show the close-up nature of the image. This photo was taken at Singleton, NSW, Australia. It shows a completely different aspect of Australia's natural heritage than the Dry Landscape shown before.

This photo is really just a point-and-shoot picture - there are no special compositional techniques used, no fancy aperture or shutter-speed adjustments, just a simple fill-the-frame photo from about 15cm away. The only noteworthy aspect of this photo's composition is the familiar "concentric focus" theme coming through again - the main curves in the picture converge on the central subject of the image.

This photo taken with the Kodak C330 digital camera.

Related Photos:
Sunflower Close-up
Balloon Vine Flower with Water Droplets
Soft-focus Flower
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 August 2007 at 8:55 pm

    I love this picture. The colours are great, beautiful shade of pink.
    Your blog is well presented and very interesting reading. You have a good variety of pictures from many different places throughout Australia.
    I hope we get to see your photos in a gallery some day.

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  2. Unknown5 August 2007 at 10:48 am

    amazing shots here! Your can see very beautiful things in Australia.
    See you around

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  3. Unknown5 August 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Thanks for the encouraging comments, hope you continue to enjoy more photos in the future.

    I certainly hope to get some photos publicized in a "real-world" gallery sometime - we'll just have to wait and see...

    David

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  4. zooloo6 August 2007 at 3:15 am

    Great pictures! Keep up the good work :)

    zooloo.se

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  5. Unknown6 August 2007 at 1:00 pm

    zooloo,

    Thanks for the nice words, your site looks interesting, I'll have to check it out soon...

    David

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  6. Anonymous11 August 2007 at 5:05 am

    Very beautiful indeed. I never saw a flower that beautiful before. It's sad that wonderful nature turns into a concrete jungle from time to time.

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  7. Unknown11 August 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Yes, we have to remember that if we want to keep this wonderland of nature God has given us we will have to work for it.

    David

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  8. Nature Nut /JJ Loch12 August 2007 at 4:14 am

    Sensational water lily photo!!! I also have a water lily photo on my blog if you wish to see it.

    JJ

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  9. Unknown12 August 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Hi JJ,

    Thanks for the nice comment. I've checked out your site - you have some good photos there too. It's interesting to see some photos of the nature in America.

    David

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