Ditch Lilies

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 5 October 2007 in Plant & Nature.

A change of pace. I usually avoid taking photos of flowers, though I grant that experience has taught me taking photos of flowers in the field can be a real technical challenge, especially if there is the slightest breeze. On my way to the Roundtop Antique Fair there was mile after mile of drainage ditch along both sides of the highway filled with nothing more interesting than grass. Then on one side of the highway, where it straddled an intersecting side road, I noticed the ditch was full of lilies --for a distance of maybe 100 to 200 feet.

Nikon D80
1/250 second
F/5.6
ISO 125
202 mm (35mm equiv.)

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