These giant lilies are reaching peak at the local Botanicals, with several of the plants sporting beautiful blooms. The pads are showing a little bit of wear from the heat, but not too much yet...these plants never cease to amaze me with the juxtaposition and their delicate beauty. Show with the 100-400 at 400mm, f/32@1/6. I was a little lucky...there was a slight breeze that kept the large pads and lily in almost constant motion...shot several images when there seemed to be a lull in the soft sway across the water. RAW image processed in LR, brought into PS and some localized tweaks to tone and color were done in Viveza. I used Topaz Clean first...then Fractalius...and then Topaz Simplify, each filter on a separate layer, tweaking the opacity a bit on each to blend the effects. Merged the three layers and then tweaked the opacity a bit more to allow a bit of detail to seep through. Looking forward to comments and suggestions.








