While hiking around the Wichita Mountains recently, I found a nice clump of these white beauties … Prairie Larkspur (Delphinium virescens). Here are a few of my favorite images from the meadow:
And a focus-stacked image, made from 12 images, showing the wonderful detail in the wildflower:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 1D Mark 3 body
- Canon EF180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
- Gitzo 1258-LVL carbon-fiber tripod, with Kirk Ent. HD ballhead
- ISO 500 (top photo) and ISO 250 (bottom, focus-stacked image)
- Aperture f/11 (top photo) and f/3.5 (bottom, focus-stacked image)
- Shutter 1/640 sec. (top photo) and 1/400 sec. (bottom, focus-stacked image)