I eventually go hold of a macro lens, and I had quite a lot of fun trying it out today. Now I have about 100 macros of flowers. LOL. I promise not to post them all. I had posted a few yellow ones, so this time I went for the white lily. I think it is a beautiful flower. Lilium longiflorum, often called the Easter lily or November lily, is a plant native to the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and Taiwan. It is a stem rooting lily, growing up to 1 m high. It bears a number of trumpet shaped, white, fragrant, and outward facing flowers. From the 1890s to the early 1920s, there was a thriving export trade of bulbs from Bermuda to New York. A disease affected the Bermuda lilies: this was identified by Lawrence Ogilvie. Then most Easter lily bulbs arriving in the United States were imported from Japan before 1940s. The supply of bulbs was suddenly cut off after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Easter lilies became extremely valuable in the United States. Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL Shooting Mode A-DEP Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/60 Av( Aperture Value ) 10.0 ISO Speed 200 Lens 17.0 - 70.0 mm Focal Length 63.0 mm Image Quality RAW Flash Off