Blood Root, that is… Sanguinaria canadensis or Blood Root is a beautiful little Spring ephemeral that was in great abundance at The Nature Conservancy’s Nine Times Preserve in Pickens County, South Carolina. I had made the 35-mile (56-km) trip hoping to catch the last of the Erythronium umbilicatum or Dimpled Trout Lilies, but I was
Today began very cloudy — great for wildlife/wildflower photographers. Actually, the trip was scheduled to be the day prior, but rain was predicted all day, so we postponed it. I would be meeting my new friends, Jeremy Bullinger and his 6-year-old daughter, Katie, and heading to a couple of upstate South Carolina’s premier spring wildflower
I had been wanting to see and photograph Trillium reliquum or Relict Trillium for a few years but had not had the right opportunity, so when I located a site for them on the internet, Montezuma Bluffs WMA, I talked my two Atlanta, Georgia friends, Alan Cressler and Steve Bowling into meeting me at the
When Walter Ezell and I decided to visit one of my favorite state Heritage Preserves — Eva Chandler Heritage Preserve — in upper Greenville County, South Carolina, I was expecting to see not only Erythronium umbilicatum or Dimpled Trout Lily also known as Dog-tooth Violet in flower, but also several actual Violet species. But, we
From time to time (about once per year), I recalibrate the fine-tuning autofocus mechanism on my camera lenses using a device called SpyderLENSCAL. [Technical stuff follows:] According to photographylife website, the way calibration works, is DSLR cameras have a setting, which allows compensating for either back-focus (when focus is shifted behind the focused area) or
This second field trip on February 29 took us to a little known place just west of the last dam on the Chattahoochee River — the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam. This dam forms Lake Seminole. After this point, the Chattahoochee River becomes the Apalachicola River which makes its way to Apalachicola Bay in the
On February 29, Eleanor Dietrich and Virginia Craig joined me on a field trip to the Angus Gholson Nature Park in Chattahoochee, Florida. Eleanor had suggested this location as a good day trip to see a number of spring wildflowers. So we drove up from Eleanor’s home in Tallahassee, Florida where Walter Ezell and I
Pinguicula, that is… After presenting a program to the Spring Garden Symposium in Macon, Georgia, it was time to head south. Walter Ezell and I had made prior arrangements with our good friend, Eleanor Dietrich of Tallahassee, Florida to stay a few days at her place and work our way into the panhandle of Florida
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