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Breeches Blowing in the Wind
Today’s post features a focus-stacked image of a patch of Dutchman’s Breeches that I photographed last week in the woodlands of Ha Ha Tonka State Park, in the Missouri Ozarks: This image was produced by combining 14 individual images, each with the focus point varied, in Helicon Focus focus-stacking software. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D […]
Posted in Focus Stacking, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
Tags: Missouri, wildflower
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Unfurling in the Woods
… But Only Momentarily! Today’s post features another woodland wildflower that was beginning to bloom along one of the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (Missouri Ozarks) last week … the Bloodroot wildflower. When the Bloodroot wildflower is about ready to bloom, the plant’s leaf, which is originally wrapped around the stem of […]
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Tags: Missouri, wildflower
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Airing the Dirty Laundry
Today’s post features another early spring wildflower that I captured last week at Ha Ha Tonka SP (Missouri Ozarks), Dutchman’s Breeches. Aptly named, the flowers on this small, woodland wildflower suggest that someone is hanging their dirty breeches in the woods to dry: Coming up … another woodland wildflower that was photographed on this hike. […]
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Tags: Missouri, nature photography, wildflower
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It’s Official … Spring is Here!
Today’s post features one of Missouri’s earliest blooming, woodland wildflower … the Harbinger of Spring (aka, “Pepper and Salt”). While hiking the woodland trails of Ha Ha Tonka State Park (in the Missouri Ozarks) last week, I found this small, and often overlooked wildflower blooming adjacent to the woodland trail I was hiking. I captured […]
Catching Spring Fever
Today’s post features an image that I found while editing older images … immediately, I got spring fever! This image of a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly collecting nectar from a thistle plant, was captured on a Missouri prairie a few years ago: Another sure sign of approaching spring is the wonderful display of woodland wildflowers that […]
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Tags: butterfly, wildflower
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Ya Ready?
It won’t be long until signs of spring are showing all around us! The recent warm temperatures have caused me to suffer “spring fever”! One of the early signs of spring that I usually see is the appearance of Spring Beauty wildflowers that add a wonderful bit of color to the Missouri woodland landscape: Canon […]