Category Archives: Focus Stacking

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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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 Little Pfun with Pflox

By James Braswell | Published April 18, 2023

Today’s post features a couple of focus-stacked images I captured last Friday on a photo outing at Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks, not far from where I live). Woodland Phlox wildflowers are really rampant right now … been finding a lot of them on my woodland hikes. During last week’s outing, […]

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Spring on Missouri’s Woodland Slopes

By James Braswell | Published April 7, 2023

Today’s post features some Spring Beauty wildflowers I found growing along the woodland slope of a hiking trail in Ha Ha Tonka SP, last week: 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 1/8,000 sec. Combination of 10 images, […]

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