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A Peek Inside the Bell
When photographing nature, I always look to find “different” ways of photographing something. In this case, I found a Virginia Bluebell wildflower with a clump of flower buds and a single bell open. I was wondering what it would look like, grabbing a capture looking down the bell of the flower. I captured 20 images, […]
More Signs of Spring
After the recent snowfall, I also found some early, woodland wildflowers growing around my rural property. The Virginia Bluebells had some small buds, still being covered by the leaves, trying to poke out: I then set up my camera on a tripod to capture some images for Focus-stacking: This focus-stacked image was made by capturing […]
Common Violet Wildflower
Yesterday, I held my first of several, scheduled in-the-field workshops for wildflower photography. One of the many wildflowers we found blooming was the Common Violet (Viola sororia). Here are a few images I captured, alongside a student: And this next image was created by “focus-stacking” 10 images into one image: The Common Violet grows to […]
A “Lifer” Wildflower: Bloodroot
While hiking and photographing woodland wildflowers yesterday, I found a “lifer” wildflower … one I have often hoped to run across, but until this trip, had never seen. I’m talking about Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). Here are a few of my favorite images of the Bloodroot wildflowers: Here are some “young” plants, emerging from the leaf […]
First Spring Beauties of 2015
Yesterday morning, I first checked out the woodland where I will be conducting some in-the-field wildflower photography workshops (starting next week), then decided to check out a woodland area that is behind another friend’s house, right across the road from my home. I wasn’t too optimistic about finding much there, but boy was I wrong! […]