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.
My white ornamental Ginger Lily just started to bloom (9/24/15). I have been trying for days to get a good image but it has been raining for 3 days and windy. So, I am going with the best capture I could get. I shot these with native camera app for the iPhone 6. I did try to adjust exposure because of white blossoms. The image on the left was edited normally in PSE 11. The image on the right I wanted to try for an altered art effect. I cropped to a more square image and used the lighten/darken sliders, sharpened to the max to show more texture in the petals and give a more painterly appearance. I did not clone out the rain drops. As a result of the super sharpening the grass in the foreground and background became more pixelated. Too bad photography does not allow you to pass on the fragrance of these blossoms.
