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Author Archives: James Braswell
Early-Bird Traveler
Today’s post features a phone camera image I captured yesterday in my church’s butterfly garden, here in the Missouri Ozarks … a large, Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Typically, I haven’t seen Monarch “cats” in the garden until later in the summer. But this year, the milkweed plants from last year have really re-seeded themselves and there […]
Posted in Butterfly Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged butterfly, nature photography
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Ozark Trillium
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 […]
Posted in Focus Stacking, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Missouri, wildflower
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An Oxymoron?
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 […]
Posted in Focus Stacking, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
Tagged macro photography, Missouri, wildflower
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Dwarf Larkspur
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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Tagged Missouri, nature photography, wildflower
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Missouri’s Northern Resident
Today’s post features a couple of photos of Ring-necked Pheasants (males) that were captured at Squaw Creek NWR in northwest Missouri, a few years ago. Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) is located near the northwest tip of Missouri, and is at the southern edge of the ring-necked pheasant range: Photographic Equipment Used: […]
One Week Old and Growing
Today’s post features a couple of phone camera images I captured yesterday at my church here in the Missouri Ozarks. Yesterday the five baby Eastern Bluebird babies turned one-week old! While photographing them, one of the “toddlers” thought I was mom, bringing some food to the box: Photographic Equipment Used: Google Pixel 3 phone camera
Posted in Bird Photography, Nature Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged bird photography, nature photography
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