I like how the very warm yellow contrasts with the cool green. Warm colors tend to move forward and cool colors reseed. This gives this image quite a sense of depth.
I thought a square crop would accentuate the radial symmetry of the flower.
Archive for the ‘Wildflowers’ Category
Spring Wildflower—White Trout Lily
Last year, after someone told me where to look, I found some white trout lilies. (Last year’s post.) So one of the first things I did yesterday at Shenk’s Ferry was to go looking for some. I found a few but because of the grey, cool, overcast conditions they were not open. When they are open they remind me of miniature Easter Lilies.
Even though they were closed I still like the mood of this image.
Spring Wildflowers—Drooping Star of Bethlehem
I decided to take advantage of the overcast conditions today and made the trek out to Shenk’s Ferry Wildflower Preserve today. Being Easter week it was pretty crowded.
Today is Good Friday so I thought I would post a shot of a Drooping Star of Bethlehem shot this morning.
Can’t say this is the best image I’ve made of this species, but I do like it.
You can go to my Shenk’s Ferry page and check some past work.
Spring Wildflowers—Early Dutchman’s Britches
I’ve been a little lax in getting stuff posted. Just been pretty busy lately, mostly with classes and workshops. I’ll try and get back on a regular posting schedule.
A couple of weeks ago Jim Wilson and I drove over to Bucks County to visit Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. Well….either we were a bit early or the wildflowers were late. And I think it was more of the latter. The only things we saw was Virginia bluebells just starting to bloom, mash marigold, and a few early Dutchman’s britches that were. This is one of the few images I made that day.
I like the size variation symbolizing the mature and young. And I decided on a square crop to put emphasis the pair.
Spring Wildflowers–Snow Drops
It’s time for a new series, and given that it is now spring here in the southeastern Pennsylvania, what better topic than spring wildflowers. While the early emerging flowers seemed to start on schedule those that follow seem to be a week to maybe two weeks late. Probably because it’s been pretty cool so far this spring.
This image is from a few weeks ago. 
Snow drops are one of the fist wildflowers to emerge. When you get in close it allows you to see the delicate beauty of individual blossoms.
Windows Live Writer TEST
I’ve just discovered Windows Live Writer. It’s an authoring tool to create content for blogs. Unlike the native Word Press editor you preview your posting with the blog’s theme applied. That means I see the text and images as they will appear when posted. The Word Press editor displays this as “plain text.” So to see it as it will appear when posted you have to preview it—what a pain.
This is a test post using that tool to compose a blog post. I now want to float the image. Lets see how we do that.
Let’s see how linking text looks. Link to previous post: Covered Bridges of Southern Chester County.
Wildflower–Dandelion Seed Head
This is another shot from the Nature Close-up class field trip to Ridley Creek Stat Park. What caught my eye on this one is the back lit seed head. I like how the two oof white areas, one in LLHC and the other in the URHC, mimic the color and shape of the seed head. Also the the oof swirls of green worked out well.
(After looking at this for a bit I think that oof white area in the URHC is the diffuser I was using to shade part of the bg. Goes to show you that mistakes can work sometimes.)
Wildflowers–Canada Mayflower
Nature Close-up Class Field Trip at Ridley Creek State Park
As I mentioned in my last Wildflower Post, last weekend I did a field trip to Ridley Creek State Park with my Chester County Night School Nature Close-up Photography class. For the field trip John Koskulitz was helping out. So when I was not helping students I took the opportunity to shoot some. And at our final classroom session we critiqued some of their images. At the end of the session they want to know if they could see some of the images I shot that morning. I couldn’t show any at the session because I didn’t have them with me. But I think I will post a few over the next week of so and share with everyone.
I keyed this out but have forgotten what it is called so I will have to update this when I get home. I’m down in southern Delaware teaching the Beaches and Wildflowers Workshop. Update: this is Canada Mayflower.
The shooting metadata for this image is:
D200 with 105 macro
1/45 sec @ f/3.5 , ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp +2/3
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