A Peek Inside the Bell

By Jim | Published March 31, 2017




When photographing nature, I always look to find “different” ways of photographing something. In this case, I found a Virginia Bluebell wildflower with a clump of flower buds and a single bell open. I was wondering what it would look like, grabbing a capture looking down the bell of the flower. I captured 20 images, […]

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Playin’ the Bells

By Jim | Published March 27, 2017




After posting my first-of-year Virginia Bluebell in bloom on Friday, I headed back out to see if the bloom had progressed further. I was pleasantly surprised to find many bluebells in bloom. Here are a few of my favorite images I captured this past Friday in the rural Missouri woodland: With so many brilliant blue […]

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More Signs of Spring

By Jim | Published March 17, 2017




After the recent snowfall, I also found some early, woodland wildflowers growing around my rural property. The Virginia Bluebells had some small buds, still being covered by the leaves, trying to poke out: I then set up my camera on a tripod to capture some images for Focus-stacking: This focus-stacked image was made by capturing […]

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Fun Friday: Surrounded by Pink

By Jim | Published April 15, 2016




Today’s “Fun Friday” post was one that caught my eye while photographing this past week in the local Missouri woodland. A single Virginia Bluebell bloom was surrounded by pink buds: Today, I’m setting up my booth for the 2016 Stillwater Arts Festival, in downtown Stillwater, Oklahoma. If you live or will be in the area […]

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Time for Seeding!

By Jim | Published April 14, 2016




One last look at some of the early spring wildflowers, before they “melt” away. In this first photo, the Virginia Bluebells are at peak bloom right now and show themselves off nicely: In this next photo, a bluebell plant has hit peak bloom and is now starting the process of developing seeds which will later […]

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I Can’t Get Too Much of These!

By Jim | Published April 7, 2016




Today I’m featuring some more Virginia bluebells (aka, Virginia cowslip) wildflower images captured at one of my “shorty” Woodland Wildflower workshops last week. These are one of my favorite woodland wildflowers and the landscape can become quite breathtaking when there are hundreds of these beauties blooming at the same time! They should continue blooming for […]

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The Beauty of a Hard Freeze

By Jim | Published March 29, 2016




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Virginia Bluebells Ready to “Pop”

By Jim | Published March 22, 2016




Yesterday, I made a short trip to the woodland where I conduct my spring woodland wildflower photography workshops. Things are really going to town! I found several wildflowers up and getting ready to bloom, as well as other wildflower species that have emerged through the leaf litter and will follow the “early risers” in the […]

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Those Bloomin’ Bells

By Jim | Published April 12, 2015




Each time I wander the nearby woodlands, I find more and more progress with wildflower blooms. Yesterday, the Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) were beginning to bloom in large groups: And with the many blooms, I noticed a large increase of pollinators to the wildflowers, particularly to the Bluebells.  On my next workshop to this area (Monday), […]

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Wildflower Peek-A-Boo

By Jim | Published March 31, 2015




During my woodland walk a few days ago, the Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) wildflowers were playing Peek-A-Boo with me. I noticed that the leaves of the many bluebell plants were hiding many small buds, that could only be seen from a specific angle. Once I saw this, I maneuvered my tripod down close to the ground […]

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