0607_0215 Western Anemone - a photo on Flickriver

0607_0215 Western Anemone

            Same morning as yesterday's Spreading Phlox. The Western Anemone is one of the few flowering plants that might be more beautiful - and exotic looking - in its seed stage, when they are known as towheads. This one looked stunning in the soft light, wet with dew, against a mass of Red Mountain Heather.

There seems to be some disagreement as to whether this plant belongs in the genus Anemone or Pulsatilla. Science is always a work in progress. Like art. Like philosophy. Like life. 

Regardless, seeing thousands of these towheads bobbing in a mountain breeze always brings a smile.

Minimal EXIF data available because I used an old, manual focus Nikon 105mm macro lens, and reprocessed this from a .TIFF file created 18 years ago. I originally shot it horizontally; it took that long to figure out it needed a tighter crop. I used ON1 Resize to upscale the image. That old lens may have been basic, but it was very sharp. I used it for more than 25 years and eventually replaced it with an AF model that was a stop faster (f/2.8 as opposed to f/4) and allowed closer focusing.

Exposure wasn't recorded - it got lost in the various iterations - but I can make an educated guess. Unlike yesterday's phlox, in which my subject was basically a flat field requiring f/22 to ensure edge to edge sharpness, this composition has a foreground and background. Therefore, a different approach. I wanted to use that magenta without overwhelming my main subject. A fairly wide f-stop - f/8 or even f/5.6 - did the trick. 

One more shot to come from this BC series, which has lasted more than a month.

Photographed in Manning Provincial Park, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2006 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Manning Park (show map)

Taken on: July 6, 2006

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Sets appears in: • Best 2006 • Flowers in Seed, Past Prime

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