Blooms sooo Blue....

These Iris' are tiny - just about 5 inches only...

"Iris reticulata" (Iridaceae)
Zwergiris

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Blooms of Crocus on the Meadow....

"Crocus Tommasianus" (Iridaceae)
crocus, Elfenkrokus

A Sea of Crocus' Blooms

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

One Day with a Spring Message....Blooms

I could not believe it but yesterday was a day where you could sense that spring is near although today it is one of those typical dull and dark days again but yesterday...
Doesn't this look like a promise? But there are more - much more - so check it out tomorrow!

"Crocus Flavus" (Iridaceae)

Golden Crocus, Goldkrokus

All photos are from Munich - photography by Petra Voegtle

Yellow as the Sun

A few memories from summer times...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)

glads, Gladiolen

Sunset in a Bloom

The weather is awful today, cold, rainy - simply yuck. So I dream of past late sunny days such as this one when I took these photos...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glad, Gladiolen

Presentation of a Bloom....

Here just another example for presentation - simple but effective. While a white flower may not be the ultra eyecatcher it will become one with the right passepartout and the right frame. Again less is more - but that's only my opinion...
Click on the image to see it larger and imagine it hanging on a dark wall...

Gladiola in Violet

Look at the intensity of this lilac colour - it looks so juicy and reminds me very much of those sugarsticks you get as a child on a country fair...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Gladiola in White...

I love Gladiola for their delicacy and elegance, for their fragility. They are easily broken and rain and wind often do their part to shorten the life of this beautiful bloom. Then I feel sorry for all the wasted beauty, often destroyed before anyone could appreciate it.

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)

glads, Gladiolen

And Pink again...

This is the colour I long for most in winter time when everything is so awfully grey and dark. Now I can go into my blog and bring back all those colours again...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Shades of Rosé and Pink

Colours like bonbons - all sweet and juicy and adorable...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Presentation of an elegant Bloom...

I think if you want to present an elegant and delicate bloom such as this in a photo you need to give it the right environment. It is not enough to just place it behind some glass and nail it to the wall. It needs attention - wouldn't you agree? There are many different possibilities today and the framing shops offer plentiful choices which do not need to be expensive - this is just one example how it can look like even if the flower itself is not dramatic...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Dipped in Paint...

These blooms of a gladiola look as if Mother Nature had started with yellow, then changed her mind and dipped the petals in some orange paint...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Gladiolus in Fire...

Now this was nearly impossible to photograph without having a whole lot of problems with my camera - only photoshop saved it partially... must be that red which is simply incredible...

Funnily I did not use a starfilter in the second shot - the reflection of the little water puddle that was in the bloom appeared by itself...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Lady Gladiola in deep Purple...

These flowers are not so easy to photograph because they turn their blooms in different directions - so you nearly always get a lot of unwanted background. This makes it difficult to show their beauty in full size...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Elegant Lady Gladiola...

This flower somehow always makes me think about an elegant lady. Maybe its the straight growth, the elegant setting in which the single blooms appear....

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Iris in Yellow and Brown

Look at these elegant colour combination! A painter's heart is warming up....

"Iris" (Iridaceae)
Schwertlilie

The Blooms of Crocus - The Spring Flower

These are gone in the meanwhile because they belong to the earliest spring messengers but I thought I bring them back here because they are so beautiful. Growing wild here:

"Crocus tommasinianus" (Iridaceae)
Elfenkrokus