Beauty Times Six

By James Braswell | Published July 21, 2023

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 […]

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Those Fabulous Fritillaries

By James Braswell | Published July 11, 2023

Today’s post features some images I captured over the weekend in the church butterfly garden, here at the Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri). The Fritillary butterflies are literally covering the flowers in the church butterfly garden right now! While watering some of the church gardens the other morning, I grabbed my camera and captured a […]

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Ozark Trillium

By James Braswell | Published May 25, 2023

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 […]

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An Oxymoron?

By James Braswell | Published May 23, 2023

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 […]

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Dwarf Larkspur

By James Braswell | Published May 17, 2023

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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Color on the Hiking Trail

By James Braswell | Published April 25, 2023

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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