Where The Lilies Bloom?

If you have never seen the movie it is a good movie even if it is 46 years old, however this post is not about the movie. On Monday we went to check on Lily Lake to see if the lilies had started to bloom yet. We missed the major last year and did not want to miss out this year.

While it may not have been that beautiful of a day today, the lilies are in bloom. The first image is a close up and cropped from my zoom lens:

F-stop f/8 - Speed 1/320 ISO-250 Focal length 185 mm

Here is a panoramic 14 stitched together image shot of the lake. You can see a lot of little yellow parts, those are all lilies. I had a hard time getting a suitable image to upload so I have provided a link to the image that will hopefully stay as is and not be compressed further than what I had to do in order for it to upload.

Big View

It was pretty overcast and a few little drizzles every now and then. If you click on the Big View you can see a touch of blue sky on the far right hand side, and a lot of lilies in the water.

Here is a close up of a small cluster of lilies:

F-stop f/8 - Speed 1/320 ISO-250 Focal length 110 mm

And we will end with a Sitka rose. I did do some editing on this one, I wanted the petals to take the stage and used the photo program to even further blur out the background.

F-stop f/8 - Speed 1/320 ISO-250 Focal length 200 mm

Some days it is just difficult to get the image sized and compressed correctly for upload management. The full pano shot is a 36MB file, Resizing really took a lot of the details out. I maybe should have put my landscape lens on instead of the 35 mm and tried for only a 4 or 5 panel set up.

Being a hand held series I did not want to move to far and end up missing a section and the pano not working out, so there were only small movements, thus a lot of images.

It may not be the full blown major bloom, but hopefully we will be able to get back on a sunnier day, and then take more time instead of worrying about the rain.