When: Spring

Where: Wooded Area

How: In the early spring in a northern forest, you will find the first signs of life from these tightly coiled leaves of the Mayapple plant. When it’s fully grown, it looks like an umbrella and has a white flower that can be seen underneath the umbrella. To catch them as you see in this image, you have to be there as they just pop though the forest floor. Most are green, but you will find some with this purple color. I shot as close as my lens would allow and filled the frame with this small subject. I shot at f/32 to make sure all was in focus. 

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Lou Aiello is my featured Flower Photography Club member and is from Taylors, SC

Lou's equipment, Nikon full frame cameras with 105mm Macro lens

Here are five of Lou's beautiful flower images

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When I go out to shoot, I will head into the woods on a hiking trail but once in the woods I wander off the trail searching for subjects to shoot.

Whatever random path I choose on that day it may be taking me to some really great subjects or maybe nothing worth shooting.

The path I took may have been just a short distance from some really great subjects, but I'll never see them on the path I chose.

So, each time I go out I never know if I took that right path on that day.

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I like when I find a pair of flowers where the viewer sees the front view of one flower and sees the side view of another flower. Not easy to find them this way.

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Some of my flower images are okay but need a little something extra, like an interesting effect to make it a little more artistic.

Here are two images that I find just basic flower shots that are not all the impressive and need a little help.

In Smart Photo Editor there is this cool crackled effect filter that I thought would look fun on these two images. 

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