Lillies from Chestoa...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:33 pm

EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held/IS off
1/125 sec. @ f/10 ISO 400
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Wide Angle Zoom, 135mm close focus
Daylight, shade

1/125 sec. @ f/9 ISO 400
(70mm close focus, all other data, the same as above)

Chestoa

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:08 pm

Ah, now these things bring back memories! I spent hours in a wet darkroom, back in the early '70's, late '60's maybe, working to get a "just so" color print of lilies like these. I think my mom still has the print hanging on her wall.

Somehow these look a lot better than mine do.

Nice job, Ken!

--Rik

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:22 pm

The mountains are full of them right now. See'em everywhere. Thanks Rik

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:07 pm

Real beautiful looking pictures and flowers Ken.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:29 pm

Thanks Doug

These are Carolina Lillies and there is another called the Turk Lily, that looks just like them. The difference between the two is that the Turk grows much higher and has numerous blooms of lillies where as the Carolina is about 1-3' tall and has only two lillies per stem. Both the Turk and the Carolina droop downwards. I need to get some shots of the Turks if they are still in bloom the next time up.

Walter Piorkowski · Post by **Walter Piorkowski** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:06 pm

Very, very nice Ken.
Walt