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Unfurled and Showing Off
A few days ago, I shared some images of False Rue Anemone (Isopyrum biternatum) wildflowers that are growing on a nearby, rural Cass County woodland. At that time, the flowers were still “rolled-up” and just waiting to “pop” (here is link to those images: “First MO Wildflower of 2015”). Yesterday morning, I checked out the […]
Testing the Limits
While editing some older images, I found a couple of images captured from the kayak, of a small frog “hiding” in a lily pad. Reviewing the image data, I realized these images were made by hand-holding the camera/macro lens combo. I used a very small aperture to throw the background out-of-focus. This also caused a […]
Stacked Spider
Note: I will be displaying/selling much of my artwork (framed and unframed prints, nature note cards, nature magnets, post cards) at the Lee’s Summit Art Festival on Friday, October 10 thru Sunday, October 12 (see details HERE and scroll down the page). With a hectic schedule, and working around potential heavy thunderstorms to set up […]
Indian Pipe
During my recent visit to the Burr Oak Woods Nature Center (Blue Springs, Missouri), I was able to see and photograph the Indian Pipe wildflower (Monotropa uniflora). This was a “lifer” for me. I had heard about this beautiful plant, and even one of my country neighbors had found one on his property a few […]
Purple Fringe
At several places along the narrow road up Black Bear Pass, Purple Fringe (Phacelia sericea) wildflowers were found. This was a new wildflower for me, and one that I’ll never forget. It is made up of many tiny purple flowers, tightly packed along a vertical spike. Conspicuous yellow stamens protrude from the flowers: Purple Fringe […]
Spiderwort, a Focused Look
While photographing in Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains, I did a lot of shooting for focus-stacking, a technique I’ve been playing around with lately. Focus-stacking is the process of making many images of the subject, using a very shallow depth of field (DOF), and varying the focusing point. Once a set of images has been captured, they […]