Yep they are Hepatica and the once Bloodroot, the large green foliage seen in some shots is Wild Garlic (best identified by sense of smell...)
I'll probably try your spray bottle trick and see how that works. All but one of these was shot with a diffuser, some with an added reflector putting some directional light back into the frame to bring out detail.
One thing I was trying to do when shooting alst week was to capture more of the environment - showing the dried leaves and hopefully suggesting the ecological niche this plants inhabit.
- MCC
At 09:04 AM 4/4/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Mark nice photos. These are, of course, Hepatica, among the first flowers
to come up in the spring along with Bloodroot. They usually open mid morning
when the sun has had a chance to warm them enough to enourage bloom. They fold
up later in the day as the sun sets and temperatures plummet. You did a nice
job capturing them. They are sometimes difficult to photograph because of the
distracting background of old dried (often very bright) dead leaves that cover
the ground when they bloom. I have always found that a spray bottle to wet
down the leaves in the background and an umbrella to shade them really improves
images of Hepatica...
Vic
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