Beauty Times Six

By James Braswell | Published July 21, 2023

Today’s post features a focus-stacked photograph (using 6 images stacked together) of a clump of Spring Beauty wildflowers that I captured late this spring in some Missouri Ozark woodlands. For those who read this blog on a regular basis, please note that I will be absent from posting next week. I will be at church […]

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Race Against Time

By James Braswell | Published June 21, 2023

Today’s post features some images I captured this week from my front patio. Earlier in spring, I purchased a really nice hanging fuschia plant and located it just outside my front door. Within a few days, I noticed a lot of “debris” in the planter. Setting up a ladder, I went to remove the debris. […]

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Ozark Trillium

By James Braswell | Published May 25, 2023

Today’s post features a focus-stacked, macrophotograph of a Trillium wildflower as it blooms in the woodlands, in the Missouri Ozarks. I captured 25 individual images and then combined them into a single image. As you can see, the detail can be seen in most of the resulting image. But you can see that flower movement […]

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An Oxymoron?

By James Braswell | Published May 23, 2023

Today’s post features a wildflower I captured recently while hiking around Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area, located in the Missouri Ozarks: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead ISO 400 Aperture f/3.5 Shutter 1/6,000 sec. This image is a focus-stacked image of 7 […]

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Dwarf Larkspur

By James Braswell | Published May 17, 2023

Today’s post is a recent find at Fiery Fork Conservation Area, here in the Missouri Ozarks. This Dwarf Larkspur woodland wildflower is a new wildflower for me … I have seen the larger larkspur species, but this shorter version was a “lifer”: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro […]

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A Quintuplet Birthday!

By James Braswell | Published April 27, 2023

Today’s post features an image I captured with my phone’s camera on Monday morning. I’ve been watching the bluebird box that I installed last year at my church in the Missouri Ozarks. Eggs were laid a little less than 2 weeks ago. Sensing that the eggs should be ready to hatch, I checked the box […]

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