Water Lilies After Dark

Five monochrome views move from isolated clusters toward low, reflective studies of blossoms and pads.

water lilies / lily pads / pond / Chicago, Illinois / monochrome / reflection

Water lilies drift between open darkness, soft reflections, and the edge of a glassy pond.

Photographed in black and white, the sequence isolates water-lily clusters and single blossoms across a dark, glassy pond. It moves from a dense raft of pads and stray blossoms toward closer, lower views where reflections and blurred backdrops frame the flowers alone.

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Images

A tight cluster of round lily pads holds two small white blossoms low on the left, floating on dark, mottled water.
Attention rests on a small cluster of lily pads and pale blossoms floating in dark water.
A single stray lily pad drifts alone at the frame's left edge, far from a denser cluster of pads and pale blossoms on the right.
Attention rests on two groups of rounded lily pads surrounding several pale flowers on still water.
One fully open blossom rises on a visible stem above a raft of pads, with blurred reflections rippling across the water's surface behind it.
Attention rests on a close cluster of broad lily pads beneath one raised water-lily blossom.
A blurred foreground of near lily pads leads toward one glowing blossom, with soft vertical striations from an out-of-focus structure filling the background.
Attention rests on a low view across a pond toward one bright blossom and layered lily pads.
Two open blossoms stand side by side on long stems above scattered pads, their pale reflection glowing faintly in the still black water below.
Attention rests on two pale water-lily blossoms rising above pads with a faint reflection below.