Trillium in the wind

[Steve Foss]

I'll tell you, photographing taller, limber flowers, even in the forest, when the winds are gusting to 30 mph isn't all that easy.

This was captured this morning on the way to the fairy slipper cedar swamp, and it took a lot of waiting around until the flower stilled enough to produce sharp images.

I'd been keeping my eyes open for this locally common species, but it doesn't occur up around the boreal forests in the Ely area, as far as I've seen, and this was the first time I've been in the right place at the right time and seen it flowering in the last several years.

Next, it'll be the red trillium.

Canon 30D, Canon 100 f2.8 macro, iso400, 1/60 @f8, tripod, remote shutter release, +1 exposure compensation off evaluative metering

[HawgMan]

Great shot Steve! Your patience paid off.

[mmeyer]

Very nice! Where are the shots of all of the ticks you've gotten while tromping around out in the woods?

[bottomdweller]

Nice steve. You ever want to shoot trillium I literally have thousands of them on our property

Probably a little out of the way

They just got done blooming here