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A shot of a bicolor iris in the garden today, near sunset.

Lovely!

Great pic!

Thanks PeatMoss and jaester. Now I realize that the photo has a cyan cast (or so it seems to me), probably from an inappropriate white-balance setting on the camera. I just edited and replaced the photo at the head of the discussion to get rid of that color cast. I think I might start shooting in RAW mode like Adam has been doing and then "develop" the photos myself using a raw-image-format editor.

Thats very pretty Steve. I have some that are similar in front of my house. I'll get a pic...might be the same.

Looks really nice!

Looks great, Steve!

Idk if its the same iris or not but it looks very similar.

Dionae wrote:Idk if its the same iris or not but it looks very similar.

It sure does look very similar. The iris in the photo I took is a repeat-blooming iris; while most iris bloom just once per year over a period of a few weeks, this one is supposed to have a second bloom period a little later in the year (this is only its second year, so I don't know yet).

I believe that there are quite a few different iris plants that have blue or purple "falls" and yellow "standards" (the upright petals). Yours certainly looks like the same coloration as mine, which I think is very pretty. Thanks for posting the photo.

This is the first year mine have put out blooms so nice. I planted them a couple years back. Idk if its a repeat bloomer but I hope so. I have some that are so dark purple that theyre almost black. Theyre my fav. Could send you a div next year if youre interested.

Dionae wrote:I have some that are so dark purple that theyre almost black. Theyre my fav.

Me too. Our very dark purple iris are my favorite as well. I'm hoping to be able to take a photo of them (they're in bloom right now) that does justice to the rich, velvety dark but intenly purple flowers.