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May 22, 2014 3:23 PM CST
South central PA (Zone 6a)
Irises Region: Pennsylvania
Welcome Marilyn. Your season must be coming to a close.
Thanks for the comments from all.

Here are a couple more, hope I have not posted these before:
[I do mentally differentiate between a "beard" shot-from the side and a "throat" shot looking lengthwise at the beard]:

Rheingauperle


Needlecraft


Gudrun
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As to the method, I found that using a high pixel setting and macro mode works well, and I often take the entire bloom from various angles and then crop it to get rid of the trash, then crop again to show just certain parts, and save both versions. Camera is an oldie found on eBay as "new old stock" which needed new batteries it was so old, a pocket sized Samsung L73. My large one with zoom lens never worked well on macro mode and was 10x the price and colors were off in the reds often!

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