Category Archives: Focus Stacking

Breeches Blowing in the Wind

Today’s post features a focus-stacked image of a patch of Dutchman’s Breeches that I photographed last week in the woodlands of Ha Ha Tonka State Park, in the Missouri Ozarks: This image was produced by combining 14 individual images, each with the focus point varied, in Helicon Focus focus-stacking software. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D […]

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It’s Official … Spring is Here!

Today’s post features one of Missouri’s earliest blooming, woodland wildflower … the Harbinger of Spring (aka, “Pepper and Salt”). While hiking the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (in the Missouri Ozarks) last week, I found this small, and often overlooked wildflower blooming adjacent to the woodland trail I was hiking. I captured […]

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Stacking the Leaves

Today’s post features a couple of focus-stacked images I captured last week during peak fall colors around the Lake of the Ozarks, in south-central Missouri. Focus-stacking is a technique I really like to employ when capturing close-up images, or macro images. Using a shallow depth of field, I capture multiple images, varying the focusing point […]

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

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Fun Friday: With a Luna …

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2018 Highlights – March & April

Continuing with my favorite experiences and images of 2018, this post features images captured in March and April. March was pretty slow with regards to photography … I was busy with business income taxes, primarily. But by the end of March, and continuing into April, bulb plants, and then woodland wildflowers really started showing up! […]

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