Because the snow had covered the ground for an extended period this year I was concerned that the wildflowers would be late this year. I’m not sure why, probably the resent snap of warm weather; but if anything, they are coming in early this year. Here is a close-up of Dutchman’s Britches I took yesterday in Ridley Creek State Park. Normally the wildflowers at Ridley are a week or so behind those at Shenk’s Ferry but not this year!
I added a min-sized extension tube (20mm) so that I could pretty much fill the frame with a single blossom.
The shooting metadata for this image is:
D200 with 105 macro with a 20mm Extension Tube
1/50 sec @ f/4 , ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp +1/3