July 2019 – Colorado – Vaughan Lake Columbines

As I promised in an earlier blog, I am devoting this post entirely to Columbines, my favorite Colorado Wildflower.

Please note that all of these photos are made hand holding the camera with a large lens, which makes it more difficult to get sharp images.  The reader will note the high ISOs used to get sufficiently fast shutter speed to freeze the wind and camera motion.

There were many of these adjacent to our campsite, so it was very convenient to photograph these.

All of these images are cropped from larger images.

A single Columbine and yet to open buds:

The back sides of Columbines are also attractive:

A group of Columbines:

A single Columbine with two buds:

A group of Columbines:

Cropped from a group of Columbines:

The group from which the above image is cropped:

Another crop from a group of Columbines:

And a larger crop from the same group:

A single Columbine with a bud below and behind it:

A single Columbine with backlight:

Columbines with backlight:

Columbine with backlight:

Columbine and bud with backlight:

Backlit Columbine:

Columbine and buds with backlight:

A crop, removing a distracting portion on the left (note the seed pod with its sail on the upper petal):

More Columbines with backlight:

And that is all for this post, mostly photos with few boring words.

Until next time,

Ken