Solitary Water Lily
I visited Kew Gardens in London over Easter Weekend 2010. It was a lovely, early spring day and partly cloudy. Kew Gardens is an extraordinary botanical garden covering over 100 acres in the southwest of London. Some of the greenhouses are over three stories high.
One thing I love about Kew is that the curators have managed to gather and successfully display plants from every major ecological niche in the world. This means you can walk in one area and see tropical plants from Indonesia and in another, flowering perennials from alpine locations.
I love the area that houses water lilies. It was a little early for the really large lilies, but on this day there were a handful of beautiful blue/purple lilies blooming. The color and symmetry of the flower were my first attractions, but I really loved the transition between the petals and water which highlighted and outlined the petals.
| Location | |
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| Date: | April 4th, 2010 |
| City: | London |
| State: | N/A |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Note: | Kew Gardens |
| Camera | |
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| Camera: | Canon Vixia HF200 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/90 sec |
| f/stop: | f/2.8 |
| ISO: | Unknown |
| Lens: | 42mm |
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