I found time on a couple different occasions in May to walk around the house and take a few photos of the Spring iris in bloom. All photos were shot with a Canon 40D and a Canon EF135MMF/2L lens. When you nail the focus, the images this lens can take are amazing.

The images are processed in Aperture via Nik Software (Sharpen Pro, Define, Viveza, Color Pro, and Silver Efex Pro for the black and white transfers).

First is an Iris (yellow I believe) from early May in black and white. I was trying to expose the foreground flower while blurring the background flowers.

Later in the month, I captured this blue iris in full bloom.

The same flower in black and white from a slightly different angle.

Another blue iris in color 

and in black and white.

Here is a yellow iris from our front yard.

and again in black and white where you can see more detail of the flower.

And here is an iris that was white with orange (not sure what the official name is). The image looked dirty in color, but the detail is revealed in black and white.

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