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Category Archives: Wildflowers
Beauty Times Six
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Also posted in Focus Stacking, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
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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 […]
Also posted in Focus Stacking, Uncategorized
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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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 […]