Spring Delight

by Nick Boren

Title

Spring Delight

Artist

Nick Boren

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Photograph - Nikon Image

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My wife purchased a dozen of these Iris beauties, so I thought I would try my Nikon camera out on doing a still life shot of one of them. I found that I spent more time on this shot than almost any other image in my galleries! I was satisfied with the results, so it was worth the time!

From Wikipedia:

Iris is a genus of 260–300[1][2] species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, which is also the name for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris. Some authors state that the name refers to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species.[3] As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera. A common name for some species is 'flags', while the plants of the subgenus Scorpiris are widely known as 'junos', particularly in horticulture. It is a popular garden flower.

The often-segregated, monotypic genera Belamcanda (blackberry lily, I. domestica), Hermodactylus (snake's head iris, I. tuberosa), and Pardanthopsis (vesper iris, I. dichotoma) are currently included in Iris.

Three Iris varieties are used in the Iris flower data set outlined by Ronald Fisher in his 1936 paper The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems as an example of linear discriminant analysis.[4]

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May 16th, 2022

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