Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is one of my favorite spots on Lake Superior. The park is carpeted with wildflowers at the end of May and early June.
The road to Miner’s Castle is a particularly good spot. I took these images in light rain.
Does anyone recognize the Trillium in the feature image? It’s not a Painted Trillium nor does it appear to be a white variety trillium gone pink with age. It is a pink-tipped trillium with a white center. I am unsure of the second image as well.
Any botanists out there?
The small whiteish pink-lined flowers that are predominant in many of the images are Spring Beauties.
I used a Tilt-Shift lens on the feature image and the three images that follow. Even with the tilt function, I did not capture all of the landscapes as sharp as I like.
I would do things differently next time. Instead of using the shift feature I would focus stack the images (focus on different parts of the image and blend them). Unlike the Showy Orchis image in my last post, I do want all parts of most of these images totally sharp from the foreground to background.
Yellow Trilliums?
I am not positive of this identification.
Trillium Sulcatum – Southern Red Trillium
Trillium Sulcatum – Southern Red Trillium
Trillium Erectum
That closeup detail was taken with my Canon 100-400 MM F 4.5-5.6 L Lens at 400mm from quite some distance away. I estimate at least 10 feet.
In this case, the out of focus background helps show off the flower. Note the difference from the previous image. This flower hands below the leaves.
Trillium Undulatum – Painted Trillium
Trillium Simile – Sweet White Trillium
I used a Canon 24-105MM F4 L Lens for the above two images. I estimate I was three to five feet away from the flowers in these images. Both were taken with a near-normal focal length about 50mm.