Category Archives: Nature Photography

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Color on the Hiking Trail

Today’s post features an often-seen wildflower along trails at the edge of woodland habitat … the Roundleaf Ragwort (a species of Packera). It is always a welcome sight when I come across this wildflower as it blooms … a cheerful, yellow wildflower: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body Canon 180mm, f/3.5 Macro […]

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A Little Pfun with Pflox

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

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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Breeches Blowing in the Wind

Today’s post features a focus-stacked image of a patch of Dutchman’s Breeches that I photographed last week in the woodlands of Ha Ha Tonka State Park, in the Missouri Ozarks: This image was produced by combining 14 individual images, each with the focus point varied, in Helicon Focus focus-stacking software. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D […]

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Unfurling in the Woods

… But Only Momentarily! Today’s post features another woodland wildflower that was beginning to bloom along one of the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (Missouri Ozarks) last week … the Bloodroot wildflower. When the Bloodroot wildflower is about ready to bloom, the plant’s leaf, which is originally wrapped around the stem of […]

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Airing the Dirty Laundry

Today’s post features another early spring wildflower that I captured last week at Ha Ha Tonka SP (Missouri Ozarks), Dutchman’s Breeches. Aptly named, the flowers on this small, woodland wildflower suggest that someone is hanging their dirty breeches in the woods to dry: Coming up … another woodland wildflower that was photographed on this hike. […]

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