Coral Mums Closeup - Neighborhoood JK

On my neighborhood walk, I found a pot of mums.  Mums are always a sign of fall.  I loved the size and the coral color of them. The angle gives depth to image. It was in a shaded area on my friend's porch  Took just a segment of them with iPhone 5C. Camera+  Edited in PSE 11: increased highlights, midtones, sharpened.

OrnamentalGinger Lily (Ms Elizabeth) from Nannette's Yard

This image should have been posted Fri., Sept. 11th. This image is of an ornamental ginger lily from my garden. The stalk is over 7 feet tall and the siding on my house would not have made a good background.  I decided to bend the stem down and use the green lawn for a background.  This culrtivar is Ms. Elizabeth and it blooms earlier than the white cultivar I have.  It is also much shorter and should be able to get a better close up. The flower head blooms in stages and by the time the top has blossoms prime, the lower ones are looking wilted, etc.   Camera+, Edited slightly in PSE 11. If I have more blooms I may  try a still life with a stalk when top blossoms in bloom--may be able to get a better close up of the blossoms.  This plant is considered subtropical but I have had this plant winter over for 2 years and given away some baby plants.  

Pomegranate Blossom Midsummer - Azalea Leaves as Background

One of my neighbors has a Pomegranate (Punica ranatum) shrub/tree. His is an ornamental cultivar and the fruit is very small -no real pulp - just alot of seed.  This plant flowers spring through summer with bright coral, red,  or varigated coral flowers.  I picked one of the blossoms to be able to get a better close up shot with the owner's permission, and it did not include a lot of leaves.  It is difficult with an iPhone to hold the flower and then use the Carolina blue sky as a background to get a sharp image like I can do with my P & S digital camera.  So, I used my neighbor's azalea bush foliage for the background. Native camera app, HDR mode, no post processing.  Could have probably sharpened and cloned out the white area to the lower right corner or cropped to square format.  .