Spotted Touch-me not

The pale and spotted Touch-me nots are out along the Red Cedar Trail. They are a favorite of the humming birds this time of year.

Shot with a Sigma 150 macro. Several shots combined with Helicon Focus.


Phil Schwarz
E2311 530th Ave
Menomonie, WI 54751
e-mail: schwarzp@uwstout.edu
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Beautiful photo, Phil! Love the colors and how the beads of water look!

Wow, this is exceptional. Love the colors, the DOF, and the dew. I might try to crop the drops along the extreme left edge.

Terrific photo. I have thousands of these in my back yard, photograph them regularly, and have not come close to this good an image. Congratulations on exceptional work.

Larry Reitz
Salem, CT

Exceptional Phil!
JG

Beautifully done. Touch-me-nots are nicknamed Jewelweed because water droplets look like jewels on the leaves and flowers. You certainly show that nicely here.

The water drops look like ice on the flower and stem, Phil..nice capture, although I'd like to see the left edge cropped off (partial leaf and water drops).

Outstanding, Phil! One of the nicest I've seen.

Marvelous shot; the closeup details just sing. This is a great example of what HF can do for macro.

Great shot Phil! It's often hard to find them completely still. As stated, excellent work with HF to control your depth of field.

Joel is right this is a difficult shot to get. You need a morning with heavy dew and they have been few this year. The wind can’t be blowing. This is only multiple shot picture that I took that turned out. The Touch-me-nots are a tangled flower so it is difficult to get the tripod setup without knocking the dew off the flowers. Not to mention the muck they are growing in makes it difficult to stabilize the tripod.

Great shot, I found a few of these the other day while hunting for a waterfall I had never seen them before and was not sure what they were.