A Football Lily beginning to flower - that's what it is called! These look nicer in bud slightly open, before they turn into something that looks like it comes from another planet....
A long time since I photographed any flowers and plants, so this indoor potted plant gave me the opportunity today.
I probably should have backed up a bit, a smaller version in a dark background might have looked a bit better.
Not sure though.
Will do another version in a day or two when it has opened up a bit more.
The almost-setting sun was behind this flower [can anyone ID it?] and made a kind of 'halo' of the spiky stamens. The background was too bright, I was shooting into the sun light, so if I exposed correctly for the background I lost all detail in the flower. Using a pair of warmed-up [TLA1 gel filters] SB800s off-camera added light into the flower nicely and I was able to darken the distracting background with a fast shutter speed. This image was taken while waiting for the 2 elusive Sunbirds to turn up.... they did but they disappeared as fast as they could when they spotted me looking at them through a big lens.
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