Ginger Lily mini-progression

This time my photos of the ginger lily blooming succeeded, and I will put together a time-progression as is my plan soon.  Here are three of the photos, and I have put them on here to show how fast the blooms change - these shots were over the course of just one day, and look particularly at the two blooms at the bottom, and how the stamens change from the first shot to the last.  Also how the top bloom  opens out, and how the stamens to each side stand up and out in the morning, and droop within a couple of hours.  The total time frame here is 7 hours!

11.53 am

©Christine Linton

Then

1.22 pm

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Lastly

6.30 pm

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I love these flowers, and the perfume from them is wonderful.  Photographing something that is personally meaningful ... please read Rob Sheppard's post on this here.

Time lapse photography

I've been working over the last 6 weeks to get a progressive picture of my ginger lily flower opening.  Last year the only flower was eaten out by insects before it could open.  Six weeks ago I took my first photo of the flower stalk:

10th January 2014, ginger lily flower stalk 

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Every day or so I have photographed the developing flower - and now just as it is starting to look like it will open fully, we have had pouring rain:

13th Feb 2014, ginger lily flower stalk bent badly by heavy rain! 

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Technical details: Aperture Priority, F2.8, shutter speed 1/160, ISO 100, AF 1 area.

Photographing nature - a beginners perspective

Hi to all those who are interested in the world of nature, art and digital photography.  I am new to anything other than a basic camera, so having just upgraded I am discovering a whole new world.  I am finding close-ups of flowers and birds flying are my current favourite aspirations - still working out all the dials but getting there.  I'll start by posting a photo of a ginger lily stalk growing outside my door - it has a dew drop still on it, which I didn't see until I downloaded to the PC.  It is about three inches tall.

dew drop on ginger lily unfurling leaf, 7.30 am

©Christine Linton

Technical details:  Aperture Priority, F2.8, shutter speed 1/320, ISO 400, white balance - daylight, focus: auto, 1 area.

This thriving patch of ginger lily is only just over a year old, and the first flower bud is in the process of opening.  I am photographing it daily so I can try a time-lapse progression when it is fully open.