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New Photo: Crystal White Calla Lily

by hankinslawrenceimages | May 18, 2015 | Araceae Family, Flowers, New Photos

Crystal White Calla Lily © 2015 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new photo – Crystal White Calla Lily – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.

White Calla Lilies are one of those flowers that so many people love – and that lots of women had in their wedding bouquets! So they are one of the flowers I get the most requests for photos in various shapes and sizes from people. So I’m always on the looking for calla lilies in great shape to photograph.

I’ve photographed a number of calla lilies at local gardens and while I’ve been happy with some of the photos I never felt like any of them captured the delicate beauty of the calla lilies. Until I took this photo of a Crystal White Calla Lily in my studio. Since I could control the light I was able to show both the delicate curve of the overlapping petals – and the curl at the tip of the blossom.

I hope you enjoy seeing this photo of a Crystal White Calla Lily

Crystal White Calla Lily is available as a matted print on my website.

In The Studio: Crystal White Calla Lilies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 4, 2015 | Araceae Family, Flowers

Well I finally did it – got a bunch of calla lilies and took them into the studio. For some reason I have an aversion to photographing calla lilies – probably because I’ve seen so many bad photos of them. They are an incredibly lovely popular flower – that can be very hard to photograph well.

Bill and I spent over an hour working with these wonderful Crystal White Calla Lilies in our studio – trying first one position for the flower and then another. We tried several combinations of lights and modifiers – and with all that – I’m still not sure I’ve gotten any photos that I’m really happy with.

Clearly I’m going to need to get some more calla lilies and try again. Fortunately for me Potomac Floral Wholesale usually has lots of colors and sizes of callas in stock – so at least I know where to get more photo subjects 🙂

If there’s one of these photos you particularly like – I’d love to know which one and why – because I’m still sort of stumped by how to get a photo of a calla lily that I like 🙂

White Calla Lilies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Dec 16, 2013 | Araceae Family, Flowers

Calla lilies (zantedeschia aethiopira) are some of the world’s most popular flowers. Native to Southern Africa, they are members of the Araceae family (they aren’t really lilies!). Calla lilies are frequently used in both wedding bouquets and funeral arrangements. At weddings they symbolize purity. At funerals, it symbolized rebirth and resurrection. Often associated with Easter, calla lilies have become a symbol for Irish nationalism since the 1916 Easter uprising.

I’ve photographed some lovely white calla lilies over the years – I hope you enjoy these photos of a few of them

Giant White Calla Lily © 2009 Patty Hankins

Colorful Calla Lilies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Dec 5, 2013 | Araceae Family, Flowers

When people think of calla lilies (zantedeschia) – they usually are thinking of a white flower. But every now and then, I’ve found some calla lilies in other colors to photograph. And when I find something other than a white calla lily – I just wish I could find more colorful varieties to photograph.

Here are some Flame Calla Lilies I photographed a few years ago.

And some lovely yellow calla lilies

Yellow Calla Lilies © 2012 Patty Hankins

Every now and then – I like the way one of my flower photos looks in black and white – here’s the exact same photo done as a black and white instead of color.

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