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Noah Brown’s Prairie, Part 1
“Catch up” time! I was unable to prepare a blog post over the past couple of days, due to several activities. On Monday, I traveled to St. Joseph, MO for a private, one day consultation and yesterday I spent the day in southwest Missouri, photographing wildflowers on several Missouri prairies (even finding some orchids!). In […]
Early Summer Spiderwort
Today’s post features a few images I captured back in late June while in the Des Moines, Iowa area, participating in the ArtsFest Midwest Art Show. On one of my free days, I drove to the nearby Neil Smith NWR. While hiking around the area, I found some nice patches of Spiderwort wildflowers in bloom: […]
Posted in 2017, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2017, Blog, Iowa, macro photography, meadow, nature, nature photography, Neil Smith NWR, photography, prairie, spiderwort, summer, travel, wildflower
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Fun Friday: How Bees Make Honey
Yesterday morning, I decided to go check out Snowball Hill Prairie, a wonderful prairie remnant near my rural Missouri home. This past winter, the Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) did a controlled burn on the remaining half of the prairie (the first half was burned in the winter of 2016) and I wanted to see what […]
Posted in 2017, Blog, Fun Friday post, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2017, behavior, Blog, Cass County, hover fly, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, Snowball Hill Prairie, spiderwort, spring, wildflower
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A New “Play Place”
McDonald’s has nothing on me … I now have a new “play place” available for prairie wildflower photography! Last summer, the Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF) purchased a natural prairie remnant not too far from my home. As a member of MPF, I attended a tour of this new prairie a few weeks ago and have […]
Spiderworts in Good Bloom
While at Shaw Nature Reserve a week ago, the Spiderwort wildflowers were in very good bloom, seemingly growing everywhere! Here are a few of my favorite images (without my macro lens, which I left at home): I will likely not be posting for a couple of days or so. I’m heading to Springfield, Missouri shortly […]
Posted in 2016, Blog, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2016, Blog, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, Shaw Nature Reserve, spiderwort, spring, travel, wildflower
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Fun Friday: Pollinator At Work!
Today’s “Fun Friday” post features a wonderful, Green Metallic Bee that is busy pollinating one of my favorite prairie wildflowers … the Spiderwort. Using a macro lens and tripod, I was able to get quite close to this busy little guy; he was so engrossed with his job of pollinating, that he paid little attention […]
Posted in 2016, Blog, Fun Friday post, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2016, Bee, Blog, Cass County, Dorsett Hill Prairie, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, spiderwort, summer, wildflower
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Spiderwort Continues to Bloom
Today I’m featuring a few more Spiderwort wildflower images from recent hikes on a nearby Missouri prairie. Our continued rains have prompted these beauties to continue blooming. And although some spent flowers are found on some plants, there are still a lot of unopened buds! The first two images are focus-stacked images, each one combining […]
Posted in 2014, Blog, focus stacking, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2014, Blog, Cass County, Dorsett Hill Prairie, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, spider, spiderwort, summer, wildflower
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Beeeeutiful!
Yesterday morning, I made a quick hike around the nearby prairie to scout for my upcoming “Native Missouri Wildflower and Prairie Creatures“ workshop. In a word, “Wonderful”! There are a lot of different species of wildflowers in bloom right now, as well as prairie insects. Of particular beauty was the Green Metallic Bees (species not […]
Posted in 2014, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2014, Bee, behavior, Blog, Cass County, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, spiderwort, summer, wildflower
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Spiderwort, a Focused Look
While photographing in Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains, I did a lot of shooting for focus-stacking, a technique I’ve been playing around with lately. Focus-stacking is the process of making many images of the subject, using a very shallow depth of field (DOF), and varying the focusing point. Once a set of images has been captured, they […]
Posted in 2014, Blog, focus stacking, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2014, Blog, focus stacking, macro photography, meadow, nature, nature photography, Oklahoma, photography, prairie, spiderwort, spring, travel, Wichita Mountains, wildflower
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Spring Fever!
Well, the last 2 days of spring was nice! Now it’s back to winter for 3-4 days, including a chance of snow … as I slip deeper into the burning sensations of spring fever, I pulled today’s images from the vault … during a true spring/summer season! Buds are beginning to appear on a lot […]
Posted in 2014, Blog, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2014, Blog, Cass County, Dorsett Hill Prairie, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, spiderwort, spring, summer, wildflower
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