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Bee on a Bottle Gentian
Friends, a trip to the tall grass prairie in Iowa we found some bottle gentian that are a pretty shade of blue, but the insects had eaten many of the blossoms, so i chose to concentrate on the bees that were clustered around the,., These blooms are closed on top, but must be very sweet cause the bees were still attracted to them, til Tomorrow MJ
Eyespots
Friends, went south for the weekend to Iowa to explore some tall grass prairie. Found this butterfly, the common buckeye, very pretty but perched in lots of junk, so had to blur out the background. Photoshop to the rescue. Don’t you just love the eyespots, my friend is in opthalmology so this butterfly is for her, enjoy til Tomorrow MJ
Move Over, Monet
Friends, this photo of wildflowers in Crex needed some creativeness to make it pop. So I was playing this morning, I started with the image below and after futzing with it, i came to this image, do you like? til Tomorrow MJ
Sandpiper
Friends, this pretty sandpiper was busy filling her tank with water critters and didnt notice me sneaking thru the cattails to get close enough to snap her portrait. I like the reflection in the water and that is our theme this month at our local photo club. Maybe I will enter this image. til Tomorrow MJ
White tail
Friends, this young male whitetail deer is out in the open trying to escape the last of the deer flies, see the antlers growing on top of his head. he is probably a second summer deer as his coat is not spotted and his antler growth is vey small for late August. The white blur is his tail swishing around chasing the flies. til Tomorrow MJ
Crex Reflections
Friends, summer is almost over and soon i will move my photography to Hawk Ridge to record the fall migration, but here is one more landscape from Crex Meadows so you will know where i spend most of my photo time. A more horizontal composition to depict the peaceful quiet summer in this very green place, til Tomorrow MJ
Crex Meadows Portrait
Friends, I am not a very good landscape photographer so i am venturing into a new world for me, this is a portrait of Crex Meadows on a beautiful summer day, but maybe it is more about the sky and reflections, I get confused when trying to do landscapes as to what the subject of the photo really is, what do you think the subject of this image is? Maybe just being outdoors and enjoying the sunshine. til Tomorrow MJ
Fall Bouquet
Friends, yesterday the backlight pointed out these primrose blooms. I worked for about 30 minutes at all the angles without getting wet. The fog had left all the foliage very damp. At f11 the depth of field was adequate and the bokeh was ok. When i came back in the late afternoon, the blooms were wilted beyond recognition. So go early. til Tomorrow MJ
Watercolor Woods
Friends, yesterday in Crex was a little disappointing cause all the flowers are drying and looking rather bedraggled. So I experimented with dragging the camera with a slow shutter speed. Then in post processing, used a watercolor filter in photoshop to add some interest. Did I succeed, do you like?? til Tomorrow MJ
Wing Detail or Abstract
Friends, a macro to test my lens, this is a Monarch butterfly wing, up close and personal, i was experimentingwith the detail extractor and color contrast settings in color effex pro, the fuzzy is the details of the wing scales, til Tomorrow MJ
MJ Springett 