Today’s post features a beautiful blue wildflower growing in the Columbia River Gorge area of Oregon, a blue Camas (species unidentified) wildflower. Early one morning, I crossed the Columbia River to photograph at Catherine’s Creek Nature Area, a wonderful little area on the Washington state side of the river. One of the striking wildflowers at Catherine’s Creek was the brilliant blue Camas. Adding to the view was Mt. Hood in the background (which was soon to be clouded over). Here are some of my favorite images of the Camas wildflowers at Catherine’s Creek:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark III body
- Canon 28-135mm lens and Canon 180mm macro lens
- Bogen 3221 tripod, with ball head
- ISO 800 (all photos, due to a brisk, early morning wind)
- Aperture f/3.5 (top, focus-stacked image of 3 images), f/11 (middle photo), and f/8 (bottom photo)
- Shutter 1/500 sec. (top image), 1/60 sec. (middle image), 1/250 sec. (bottom image)