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Flower #1

Two white flowers

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The story behind this image

I'm no botanist or gardener I'm afraid, so I don't have a name for these flowers that bloom in late summer in my garden. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

Anyhow, I rarely photograph more than one flower at once, being more interested in the close up detail than in arrangements.

However, in this case I was smitten by the way the two flowers seemed to be dancing with each other in some sort of balletic pirouette, with the uppermost flower leaping gracefully over its partner.

The white flowers showed up very well against the dark background, which I threw out of focus with a wide aperture and later rendered completely black.

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Image data

Filename - flower 01.jpg

Camera - Canon 5D

Lens - 100mm macro

Exposure - 1/800sec @ f3.5, ISO100

Location - N/A

This image - 533x800px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Fast shutter speed used to freeze movement.