Blue Flag Iris (wild Iris): Kennebunk, Maine, USA, June 2025 — This is, of course, a digital composition…or, as I like to call them, digital confection. The close up Iris is added, to simulate (or perhaps stimulate) the way our attention works when we encounter this in nature. We see the clump of Iris in all its glory next to the old birch trunk…a riot to color and texture and form, but that does not take our full attention…because we also, in our mind’s eye, see the intricate detail off the Iris flower. Much ado about nothing maybe, but maybe not. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 75mm with my marco modifications to Aperture mode (f22 for maximum depth of field) and 600mm at f6.3 for the close up. Processed in Photomator and assembled (confected) in Pixomatic.