Covered in dew

Not my usual flower photo, I hope. The iris in Clare’s garden has exploded with lots of blooms! I shot this just before 10 a.m., after Roland and I had a 17,000-meter row in his new Maas double!

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Iris&rank=genus

A year ago (“This probably looks like a desperation choice…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-04-17

[Joyce Wells]

This is beautiful, Thom! love the details on the petals! Is that dew or your sweat?

[Thom Mitchell]

@sparkleplenty1 Already cleaned up by now. That's still dew. Hence my surprise finding it as late as almost-10 a.m.!

[Rick Schies]

You captured its great texture

[Chris Jordan]

beautiful.

[Nancy ((MoonShadow)]

Beautiful beyond words..A FAV

[Thom Mitchell]

@digitalrn @jordan63 Thank you, Rick & Chris! I often say that one doesn't have to have the best hardware to take good photos, but in instances like this, it is true that better equipment allows better images...

@moonshadow Aww, thank you so much for the fav! I appreciate it!