TCampbell
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Each year these flowers come up and last a couple of weeks. They come up early in the season and this is typically our rainy season. Between work and other commitments, I've missed them the past two years. This year, I managed to capture them.
I believe these are Osage Orange trees but I haven't been able to identify the flower (not with any confidence anyway -- still working on that.)
I originally shot this with a 24mm lens but that wasn't quite doing justice to the "look" of being there. So I put my 70-200mm lens on the camera to re-shoot it with a bit more compression (I set the focal length to around 150mm) and got this.

Spring Wildflowers by Tim Campbell, on Flickr
I'm using a Lee 0.6 soft edge grad to bring down the brightness in the trees.
I normally never alter the content in an image... but this one was an exception. There's a road in the background and there are a couple of road signs. I tried to position the camera so that the trees would hide the signs and managed to hide most of them. There wasn't a good way to hide them all, so I used Lightroom to try to eliminate one in the distant background (I'm not entirely happy with it, but after a few retries I think I managed to succeed -- so long as nobody inspects it too closely.)
I believe these are Osage Orange trees but I haven't been able to identify the flower (not with any confidence anyway -- still working on that.)
I originally shot this with a 24mm lens but that wasn't quite doing justice to the "look" of being there. So I put my 70-200mm lens on the camera to re-shoot it with a bit more compression (I set the focal length to around 150mm) and got this.

Spring Wildflowers by Tim Campbell, on Flickr
I'm using a Lee 0.6 soft edge grad to bring down the brightness in the trees.
I normally never alter the content in an image... but this one was an exception. There's a road in the background and there are a couple of road signs. I tried to position the camera so that the trees would hide the signs and managed to hide most of them. There wasn't a good way to hide them all, so I used Lightroom to try to eliminate one in the distant background (I'm not entirely happy with it, but after a few retries I think I managed to succeed -- so long as nobody inspects it too closely.)