It’s Official … Spring is Here! | Show Me Nature Photography

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 17 images of this clump, varying the focal point on the wildflower. Later, I stacked all 17 images into a single image, using Helicon Focus software:

Coming up … more woodland wildflowers that were photographed on this hike.

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/8
• Shutter 1/90 sec.
• 17 images stacked via Helicon Focus software