Day Lily Portraits
/Day lily flowers are at their best outdoors in the morning….just after they open.
We have day lilies in three areas of our yard: the front flower bed near the garage, in the back in an area close the house that now gets too much shade for them to do well, and at the base of the oak.
Most of the buds are eaten by deer before they can open so I try to cut the flowers if they manage to open outdoors and the buds when they are large enough to continue their cycle in a vase. The images below show a bud that opened indoors on the first morning….and one that had opened the previous morning.
I like to try high key images with the day lilies indoors as well.
The flowers dry and fall off after they bloom. They retain some of their color and I like the curls, twists, and wrinkles.
I also photograph them with the clip-on magnifier for my phone…and the clicker to cause the phone to take the picture (making it easier to hold the phone steady). The color and texture look different when they are magnified. The pollen is visible if a petal did not cover it as the flower dried.
