More Frosty Bluebells

Today I’m featuring some more Virginia Bluebell (Mertensia virginica) wildflowers, captured in frosty conditions this past Monday morning: And a couple more focus-stacked images. This first one was prepared by combining 28 individual images: And another focus-stacked image, prepared by combining 29 individual images: Coming up, a few more wildflowers that are currently blooming on […]

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The Beauty of a Hard Freeze

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Brrrr … Early Morning Hike

After my early morning shoot of the “near Venus-Moon occultation”, I decided to hike around the prairie and see what was going on. One thing for sure, it was quite cold! Temperatures were just below freezing and everything was looking like a winter wonderland. Not a lot of wildlife activity, but here are some early […]

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A Frosted Memory!

Temperatures this morning are expected in the 30’s and there are “frost warnings” out for rural areas not far from my rural Missouri home. With these warnings in place, I vividly recall a similar situation a few years ago, when I hiked a frosted prairie and found my little friend, “Frosty”: When I first came […]

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First Freeze, Part 2

Today’s post features more frosty images from Missouri’s first hard freeze, this past Saturday morning. The plant in today’s post is unidentified. It was captured in a large wildflower/bulb garden: Combining 19 images, I also got this focus-stacked image: The focus-stacked image is not as crisp as I’d like. There was a bit of a […]

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First Freeze, Part 1

This past Saturday morning, Missouri experienced it’s first hard freeze of 2014. Temperatures early Saturday morning were in the low to mid 20’s and frost covered most outdoor plants. Grabbing my camera and tripod, I spend a cold morning photographing some of the frost-covered plants in my rural Missouri gardens. In Part 1 of this […]

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