Very pretty blooms.Thanks for sharing them.Nice to see a bloom of any kind this time of year,when everthing looks dead.

Jean

Very nice! :) And your camera takes such nice, clear pictures too.

Karen

Enjoyed viewing your great pics. Thanks for cheering me up.
Maureen

What a wonderful thing to see on this dreary winter day! Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful blooms! Thanks for brightening up the day!

Julie

Wow! I agree with tepelus, your pictures are not only beautiful, the detail is expectional. I presume that you are using a D-SLR camera. Since I am looking to replace my "point-and-shoot" and looking for actual user information, would you mind sharing the camera brand & model as well as the type (range) of lens you used for these pictures. If it is not and SLR, I will be amazed.

Anyone else out there who really likes (or dislikes!) their camera is welcome to comment as well.

Thanks,
Larry

All your comments have made my wife's day. She is the photographer and when she is taking pictures, she spends a lot of time composing the shot and then takes a multitude of pictures. When we purchased our digital camera a couple of years ago, she wanted a camera that "felt" like a D-SLR. We could not afford a real D-SLR. We ended up choosing a Fujifilm FinePix S6000 fd. When she takes flower shots, she uses the SP (Scene Position) setting and chooses the flower icon under Scene Position. This is the subsetting of SP that helps take the best flower shots. She uses that setting for any close-up shots. When taking the actual shot, she looks through the viewfinder rather than the little screen on the camera, and holds her arms tight against her body for stabilization. She patiently waits to try to catch the second when there is no wind and the flower is as still as possible. She also holds her breath when taking the shot. Last summer was actually her first summer of taking daylily pics. It was quite entertaining to watch the contortions she would go through to get "just the right" composition. She likes the pic to be of the flower and not the dirt behind the flower or whatever else might be distracting from the beauty of the flower (such as the neighbor's chain link fence), and that can take some creative positioning. Most of our plants are fairly small yet and don't have enough foliage to be a good background. She is even contemplating using a potted daylily to cart around as a foliage backdrop. She loves the challenge though.

Your wife's hard work sure does show! Absolutely beautiful photos. Thanks to both of you for sharing.
Renee

I usually just lurk here, but those pics are gorgeous!

Just lovely. Thanks for the winter doldrums pick me up.

I have 4 of the daylilies you posted; but believe me my pictures are nowhere near as good as yours.
I'd like to see even more of them.
Just great!!!!

Larry, your wife's pics are terrific. I can sympathize
with some of the contortions she went through to get the
picture---been there, done that.

It took me a while to settle down with a camera I like, I
was doing fine with an Olympus, it was great. I developed
an affliction called Essential Tremor and I ended up selling that one and buying a Panasonic Lumix which, at that time, was the only camera on the market that had
Image Stabilization. (Most of them do now.) It is amazing
what this does for a picture. There is nothing to help the
shakiness this causes except Deep Brain Stimulation. My ET
isn't that bad.

I have a D-SLR and I love it, I get beautiful pictures and
you wouldn't believe I had a problem.

Kay/phal

Kay,
My wife appreciates your comments. I, her dearly beloved, am actually Del. Larry was one of the commenters above. What digital SLR do you have? Pretty sure Larry would be interested. Our son has a Lumix and likes it a lot.