31 Monday Jul 2017
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Usually I photograph lotus blossoms in early morning, but yesterday I arrived at the pond around 2 PM. Sunlight was falling almost straight down on top of the flowers. Looking at the results, I thought a monochrome rendering of the images would be appropriate.
White Lotus.
White Lotus.
White Lotus.
Finally, a monochrome dragonfly shot, taken about the same time.
Dragonfly.
15 Saturday Jul 2017
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This morning started with fog, followed by rain, then finally sunshine. After making sure the sun was there to stay, I went to the lotus pond near our house to photograph this year’s flowers. There were not many yet, it’s still too early for them.
White Lotus with visitor.
White Lotus.
Lotus leaves. Note the two fishes at the bottom of the leaf on the left.
There were many dragonflies flying around the pond. The Eastern Amberwings darted here and there, their orange color contrasting sharply with the green lotus leaves.
Eastern Amberwing dragonfly.
15 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Photography
Some more photos of white lotus flowers at a pond near home.
White Lotus
White Lotus: there are two bees hovering, and one more leaving way to the upper left of the image.
White Lotus bud
White Lotus monochrome
13 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in Photography
The lotus pond is only about five miles from our house. At the beginning of summer, it has mostly white flowers, and the red or pink ones don’t bloom until several weeks later. Yesterday the pond looked very green still, with not too many flowers.
Lotus pond
The bees of course were very busy and at times there were several on a single flower.
White Lotus and bee
White Lotus and two bees
White Lotus
A dilemma I have is that so many shots came out that were just as nice looking as the above. I didn’t want to clutter this page with too many shots, and thus slow down the display of this page. But if you want to see more of these white lotus photos, let me know in your comments and I’ll post some more on the next post.
White Lotus
