God Light

Late afternoon sun slanting through the trees to illuminate purple iris petals.

This is one of my favorite images.

For starters, iris are one of my favorite flowers. Especially purple ones. I also–since early childhood–have always loved sunbeams. This image combines colors I love (purple and green together), slanted light, blurry background, bokeh and the gorgeous tiger striping on the iris petals.

I shot SO many pictures of these flowers in this light before I wound up with something I was happy with. I just re-edited it today to bring up the saturation and make it warmer, which is what I feel it was missing all this time.

Edit: And I never even noticed the little rainbow at the bottom until I posted it just now!!

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