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Blue Phlox, Post 2
In yesterday’s post, I featured some individual flower/plant images of the Blue Phlox woodland wildflowers. In today’s post, I’m featuring images of groups of Blue Phlox growing in small colonies: As mentioned in my last post, this has to be the best display of Blue Phlox at this location that I’ve seen! Can it get […]
Blue Phlox, Post 1
Today’s post is the first part of two, featuring the Blue Phlox wildflowers (Phlox divaricata), also know as Wild Sweet William. The Blue Phlox wildflowers have been outstanding over the past week. It’s hard to speculate what has caused such a great display this year, but likely is due to moisture and temperatures. In years […]
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Tags: Blog, blue phlox, Cass County, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, spring, wildflower, woodland
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Flowering Dogwood
Yesterday morning saw a gently, misty rain for nearly the entire morning, before ending and remaining cloudy. Once the rain ended, I headed out to the woods in my rural Missouri home’s backyard and photographed several things, including this Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida): The Dogwood also happens to be the state tree of Missouri … […]
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Tags: Blog, Cass County, dogwood, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, spring, wildflower, woodland
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May Is Near!
On my last woodland wildflower workshop, we found some May Apples (Podophyllum peltatum) that were beginning to show their flower bud … although it is still May. If you are not familiar with the May Apple, also sometimes called Mandrake, is a rather large plant, up to 12″-18″ tall, with a single white flower. The […]
FOY Phlox
Yesterday was another busy day. I began the day with a classroom session with a new student, with an emphasis on getting the correct exposure. We covered a variety of topics, but most of the time was spent on learning how to properly read the histogram and how to correct our exposures using Exposure Compensation. […]
More Trout Lilies
During my last outing to a nearby, Missouri woodland, I found many more Trout Lilies, aka Dog-tooth Violets (Erythronium albidum) blooming: And still hundreds/thousands of leaves poking through the leaf litter, meaning even more to show up! Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 body Canon EF 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens Bogen 3221 tripod, with […]
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Tags: Blog, Cass County, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, spring, Trout Lily, wildflower, woodland
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