It was a nice afternoon, so I went for a walk in our local park. I found this wildflower blooming:
ISO 400 4.3mm f/8.0 1/250
Pretty amazing when you consider that this was the same area that was the control burn at the beginning of March. Here is what it looked like then:
ISO 160 170mm f/5.6 1/640
I blogged about it here. I couldn’t help but admire how fast things were growing back. The photo from today was taken with my point and shoot. I used the macro setting, which I think does a nice job of shooting flowers in particular. In Photoshop I cropped the photo and sharpened it a bit. The photo from the controlled burn was taken with my Canon 50D and was edited in Photoshop into an HDR image.
Pretty amazing how quickly the area changed isn’t it? Do you have a favorite place to go and shoot under different conditions or at different times of the year? Feel free to leave a comment below.
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Truly amazing! Both are great shots, Amy!
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Thanks Amy!
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Beautiful macro. Very crisp. I like to take photos of the sunset along a river in the city here in Melbourne. The colors of the sky change with the season at blue hour, darker blue in the winter and more light hues in the summer 🙂
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Yes, I bet you could have a whole beautiful collection.
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Very pretty
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Thank you!
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I would love it if you checked out my blog
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You were faster with this comment than I was at getting over to check out your blog 🙂
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Hahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂
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A mãe natureza é fantástica e você sabe captar essas maravilhas através de sua lente, muito bom.
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Obrigado por seu comentário espécie.
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While in Kansas last week, we observed a controlled burn on the Flint Hills. It was an amazing sight. 🙂
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I bet, this was a fairly small controlled burn and it was pretty amazing.
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Nice clear capture
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Thanks!
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It does come back greener. Nice shots. 🙂
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Everything here seems to be an intense green, thanks to all the rain.
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Lovely photo. As I said, fire stimulates new growth.
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Yes, and it is amazing how quickly it all grows.
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How lovely, Amy. Like a beautiful Phoenix rising from the ashes. 🙂
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Agreed!
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Fire can be amazingly good for nature.
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I learned about the benefits of slash burning when I was a kid in British Columbia; how it makes forest fires more manageable and fills a natural cycle of the wilderness.
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Great shots! It often amazes what nature can produce out of what seems like almost nothing! 🙂
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I agree, it did seem to come out of almost nothing.
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