These two photos were taken as an exercise in lighting. I stepped behind the flower, which was growing very near to a large clematis, and shot into bright sunlight.
I kind of like the washed out, over-exposed look of the background ferns and plants in contrast to the deep purple-black of the foreground iris petals, along with the bright light coming through and illuminating the veins of those petals further away from the camera.
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