Lisianthus Flowers – The Conservatory – Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne
Lots of Lisianthus and Hydrangea flowers in the display at The Conservatory today. I started with the Macro 100mm lens, then progressed to the 50mm f1.4 lens, but ultimately, once again, I ended up using the 18-200mm telephoto. Even the tripod didn’t help me out on the unstable gravel surface of the Conservatory floor. The Lisianthus image below didn’t quite look right as a ‘portrait’ size, so I turned it 90 degrees and made it a ‘landscape’ size and I was happy with the result.
Beautiful capture of these flowers.. Lovely!!
Thankyou Lisaman – this was a hard flower to photograph as there were too many packed tightly together in the display.
Excellent image, Vicki. The lighting in just right.
Thankyou Mike. It was actually much lighter than this – I just like dark, under-exposed pics most of the time.
Vicki, this is one of the most amazing photograph of a flower I’ve seen in a very long time!!!! I would like ot save it on my wallpaper with your permission?
Thanks Steve. Of course you can save it as a wall paper – I feel very flattered that you’d want to. Since you’re a rose lover, I figured you would probably like the ‘rose’ shaped flowers.
There were so many packed in the display in the Conservatory (literally hundreds, if not thousands of blooms), I spent ages walking around trying to find some blooms I could isolate for a photo.
Lovely fuchsias hanging from the ceiling too, but couldn’t get a shot properly exposed due to the bright light coming through the glass ceiling in the backgrounds. Even tried using a flash. Could have done with your experience on yesterday’s photography.
Sensational, just love lisianthus, especially the purple and mauve ones.
Thanks for the lovely comment, Carolyn. Very few purple and mauve ones in the Conservatory yesterday – they were nearly all white, cream, pale pink and a deep pink.
I just love these – I am missing flowers so
Glad they brightened up your day, Lorri.
I guess the ‘tables will be turned’ once Spring comes to your side of the world and my side sinks in to Autumn.
Actually, there’s surprisingly few flowers in the Gardens – must be all the re-landscaping they did when they dug out the more traditional English cottage garden plants last year and replaced them with more drought-hardy specimens.
(Or maybe all the hot weather just killed the flowers off)?
Those flowers are beautifully capture. I really like the delicate light and tones.
Thankyou Otto.
Beautifully captured!
Thankyou Fergiemoto.