Pale Yellow Tall Sunflower

Pale Yellow Tall Sunflower

The plant looks the same as any other Tall Sunflower to me.  I walked past it several times thinking that something was wrong with it.  The other day, I stopped to really look at it comparing it to the bright yellow plants in the area.  I tried to find it on Wikipedia.  They have other, sunflowers with big heads which are pale yellow, but none of the Tall Sunflower species.  Can anyone shed light on this for me!

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White Turtlehead

White Turtlehead

My friend, Paul, showed these to me the other day.  I did not remember ever seeing them before.  I remembered them only after working out the identification.  This is a focus stack capture containing 11 images.  The "marble like" background was created because the plants were moving with the breeze.  The subject, on the other hand, was held still by my rose holder.

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Mini Puffball

Mini Puffball

Sometimes the only thing not moving with the breezes is the puffball mushroom.  This one was captured on a cloudy day with diffuse light.  I found the light uninspiring.  I wanted to see details of the surface.

Mini Puffball

I decided that we needed to create our own "interesting" light.

Mini Puffball

This is a mature one with the pore open on top.  Spores are emitted from that opening.  It is one of our lifeforms which reproduce in a sexless mode.

Camera Setup for Mini Puffball

One of the flashes, as you can see, is set three to four times the distance from the subject compared to the other.  The closer the light the brighter.  This gives about a 1.5 stop variation in the lighting, providing interest.

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Red Clover

Red Clover

This is another effort of portraying the Red Clover.  I found it near the end of my morning walk recently.

Camera Setup for Red Clover

I am finding that I like using the light modifier in the sunlight.  I think that it is worth the added effort to carry it.

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Impatiens

Yellow Wild Impatiens

I noticed this bloom the other day while photographing a bee.  It is very similar to another plant, pictured below.

Spotted Touch-Me-Not

I became aware of this plant years ago while living near a woods.  It has medicinal value for a poison ivy rash.  

Camera Setup Jewel Weed

The lighting was interesting on this series of shots.  The sunlight was coming from behind and to the right of the camera.  It was shining through some leaves, acting like a snoot, lighting the bloom.  It seemed to come and go, but I have able the make the captures when it was on.

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Green Heron

Green Heron Juvenile

This bird was perched on the rail of the pond's elevated walkway when I turned around the other day.  I was quite close but did not have my bird lens mounted on a camera.  I carefully mound and began shooting.

Green Heron Juvenile

I seldom have the chance to concentrate on poses of the bird but in this shoot I did.

Green Heron Juvenile

The bird did not seem to be aware of me and I was only standing behind the tall plants of the trail.  My only thought is that I was a silhouette with the sun directly behind me.  I was able to get my monopod mounted to the lens later in the shoot.  Once it was mounted, I was able to turn out a greater percentage of sharply focused images.  I was also able to shift to "manual" mode from "shutter priority" to "trade some of the light for additional DOF and slower shutter."

Green Heron Juvenile

Green Heron Juvenile

The pose at the left is a characteristic pose.  I came home with a "boatload" of images to process.  This is the kind of shoot that makes a photographer's catalog deep.  He/she did outlast me though.  I tried to be quiet but I think I frightened it away as I exited.

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