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@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 19, 2026, 3:31 PM

1948 Buick Super Sedanette at the Knight Riders car show in Longmont. Got in close on the headlight for the chrome bezel, the fluted lens and the gold Buick script. Shot wide open so the low sun would catch the glass.

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A close-up of the front corner of a grey 1948 Buick. A large round chrome bezel surrounds a fluted glass headlight lens divided down the middle by a chrome strip, with a gold Buick script badge set at the top of the lens. A small amber lamp in a chrome ring sits below, and part of the chrome grille shows at the lower right. The glossy paint carries soft reflections of trees and sky, and the rest of the car falls out of focus behind.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 18, 2026, 7:15 PM

Ball dahlia at the Denver Botanic Gardens. I'd started to think September was the wrong month to visit, then turned a corner into a whole cluster of these. Waited out a wedding shoot working the same corner. Worth it.

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A tightly packed ball dahlia fills the right side of the frame, its rounded petals curved inward and layered in overlapping rings. The color runs deep magenta at the center of each petal and fades to pale pink and cream at the rolled tips. A closed green bud on a curved stem sits to the left, and a second stem rises from the lower right. The background is a soft green blur with round out-of-focus highlights.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 5:32 PM

Julia and Lou by Jaume Plensa, a pair of steel mesh heads over the lily pond at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Shot at f/11 so the garden stays visible through the face. Up through spring 2027.

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A monumental head sculpture woven from open steel mesh stands in three-quarter profile above a lily pond, filling most of the frame's height. The mesh is open enough to see through: a blue-grey pavilion with a peaked roof shows through the face, along with garden beds of pink and yellow flowers, ornamental grasses, and dark conifers behind. The pavilion's roofline runs across the sculpture's brow. Lily pads and pale blooms float on dark water at the base, and a second mesh form is partly visible at the lower right edge.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 7:40 PM

Tropical water lily at the Denver Botanic Gardens in late afternoon light, something off-frame cutting the sun into bars across the pads. Purple flower, long stalk, scalloped pads... three tells that say tropical rather than hardy.

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A violet water lily stands above a pond on a long green stem, its pointed petals deep purple at the tips and fading to pale lavender toward a center of orange and yellow stamens. Large green lily pads with scalloped edges fill the frame around it, crossed by hard bars of low sunlight and shadow. The water between the pads is nearly black. A second, out-of-focus purple bloom sits at the top edge of the frame.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 3:35 PM

Gazania at the Denver Botanic Gardens, magenta running from the center out toward the white petal tips. South African natives that close at night and on cloudy days, so late sun was the only reason this one was open.

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Two white daisy-form flowers against a dark, blurred green background. The larger bloom sits right of center, its narrow pointed petals white at the tips with a deep magenta blaze running from the base of each toward the middle and a thin pale yellow line down the center of the petal. A ring of dark maroon and brown marks encircles a bright yellow disc of tiny florets. A second, similar bloom is cut off by the left edge of the frame, past its peak with one petal curled inward.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:20 PM

Conifer bonsai at the Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion, Denver Botanic Gardens. The misters came on while I stood there. The bleached branch and stripped trunk are jin and shari... deliberate deadwood, styled to read as a tree that survived hardship.

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A conifer bonsai stands in the center of the frame, its trunk twisting upward with much of the bark stripped away to pale bare wood. Blue-green needles grow in flat tiers along reddish-brown branches, and a bleached, forked dead limb reaches out to the left. Exposed roots grip a rock at the base. Fine mist drifts in from the left, veiling a slatted wooden fence behind the tree, with dark foliage above. A second bonsai in a dark oval pot sits out of focus on a stone bench at the right edge.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 3:09 PM

Yellow water lily bud at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Chose the closed bud over an open bloom... the sepals give it structure. 105mm macro at f/14 to keep it sharp, exposed under so the pond went black.

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A pale yellow water lily bud stands on a thick green stem above dark, still water, its petals still closed and wrapped by green sepals that flush red toward the base. Mottled green lily pads with purple-brown markings float around it, and a dry reddish-brown leaf rests on a pad at the upper left. The background falls away to near black.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:15 PM

1959 Imperial LeBaron Southampton at the Knight Riders Charity Car Show in Longmont. The owner bought it used in 1967 for $350, drove it five years, parked it thirty-two, finished a frame-off restoration in 2008. Still his.

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A low-angle close-up of the rear fin of a glossy black 1959 Imperial. A round red taillight sits in a polished chrome ring at the top of the fin, with a small round red reflector below it and a chrome spear sweeping down the quarter panel toward the rear bumper. The black paint holds soft reflections of trees and sky. Behind the car, cottonwoods in yellow and green fall color blur against a pale blue sky, and a second dark car and a person stand out of focus at the right edge.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:00 PM

Gladiolus murielae at the Denver Botanic Gardens, still sold as Acidanthera. Six white tepals, one maroon blotch at the throat. Custom masking in post to darken the background and isolate it. Hardy to about 10°F, so it won't winter over in Colorado.

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A single white, star-shaped flower with six pointed tepals opens against a dark, nearly black background. A deep maroon blotch marks the center of the throat, with pale stamens and a style arching out over it. The flower sits on a slender reddish-pink stem curving up from the lower left, and a second curved stem with a small green bud sits below it. Soft green and white bokeh blurs across the upper portion of the frame.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:52 PM

Lantana at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The yellow florets still carry nectar... once a pollinator visits, the floret turns orange then red and stops producing. The whole head works as a map of which flowers are still open for business.

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Two clustered lantana flower heads glow against a near-black background. Each head is a dome of small five-lobed florets, deep orange and red around the outside, bright yellow toward the middle, with tight unopened buds at the very center. Dark green, deeply veined leaves sit faintly lit behind and to the right, and the rest of the frame falls away into shadow.
@scottkiss.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 3:59 PM

Creamy white water lily at the Denver Botanic Gardens lily pond. Shot last month on the Zf with a 105mm macro, f-mount glass adapted to the body. Got down low from the walkway so the blurred sky reflection on dark water sets off the flower.

#WaterLily #Photography #ScottKissPhoto

A creamy white water lily blooms just above the surface of a dark pond, rising on a short stem from a cluster of mottled green lily pads in the lower right of a square frame. The petals are pale cream with soft yellow toward the center, and a pink-tinged green sepal curves outward at the base. Still water fills the left and upper portion of the frame, holding a soft blue-grey reflection of the sky and a dark blurred mass of trees in the upper right. A small dry orange leaf floats near the pads at the left.