Today’s post features another wildflower that was blooming during my recent hike around Fiery Fork CA, located in the Missouri Ozarks … Monarda, or Bee Balm.
I combined 13 images of varying focal points, to get this enhanced, depth of field image:
Photographic Equipment Used:
Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body
Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens
Handheld
ISO 400
Aperture f/3.5
Shutter 1/8000 sec.
This is a focus-stacked image, combining 13 images to get expanded depth of field, using Helicon Focus software
Today’s post features some images I captured over the weekend of a White-lined Sphinx Moth, in the church butterfly garden. While weeding and deadheading the flowers, this rather large guy flew in and worked on the cascading butterfly bush for some time, allowing me to grab the camera out of the car and catch a few images.
The Sphinx Moth is also know as Hawk Moths, and there are about 50 species found in Missouri. Sphinx moth caterpillars are often called hornworms, because they usually have a stiff, pointy horn on the rear end. They often rest with the thorax raised into the air and the head tilted downward, which reminded people of the posture of sphinx statues from ancient Egypt and elsewhere.
Here are a few of my favorite images:
As I await the Monarch migration (should start soon), I’m enjoying all the other nectar-seekers that are visiting!
Today’s post features a couple of focus-stacked images I captured last Friday on a photo outing at Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks, not far from where I live).
Woodland Phlox wildflowers are really rampant right now … been finding a lot of them on my woodland hikes. During last week’s outing, I captured images for a couple of focus-stacked photos.
