It's the Iris Festival weekend at our local botanical gardens but there were only a handful of iris that cooperated with the garden's plans. Most are still tucked away inside their protective cocoons but this one came out to greet us!
I smoothed out the little bit of uneveness in the BG with the paint brush/soft brush/30% opacity technique. It wasn't that there was anything all that distracting - I thought the purple iris was so pretty it deserved to have the attention all to itself.
Canon 40D, EF 400mm f/5.6L (I was taking photos of birds at the hummingbird feeders when I found this jewel!)
f5.6 @ 1/125th, ISO 200, light shade
Manual mode, pattern metering, Daylight WB
Handheld, no flash






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