Out riding my bike yesterday at a local park and saw that the milkweed pods were bursting open, so went out this morning at daybreak to get some new images.

Perfect conditions with cloudy skies and no wind.

Here is the field I was in.

I was very happy to get lots of great images but here are my three favorites. Plus, one of a knapweed flower with a trapped milkweed seed.

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With many of the subjects I shoot I will place a printed background behind the subject if the background is to cluttered, or I may move the subjects to a better background.  Sometimes I get lucky, and the subject is in front of a good background that works well with the subject.  Here are a couple images where I had a nice natural background to work with.  These were shot on Madeline Island last month.  Lupine flower in from of natural backgrounds.

Here are a few more subjects with natual background.

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I was at Ankley Farm photographing their fields of flowers, and in the sunflower field I happened to see this small sunflower directly in front of a larger sunflower. 

I thought that large sunflower will make a great background for the smaller sunflower.

Here is the finished image processed in Smart Photo Editor.

Fuji X-T30 MKll Tamron 18-300, f/32 @ 1/40sec ISO2000.

Here is the out of the camera original.

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A few years ago I was up in Anchorage Alaska teaching one of my Macro Boot Camps.  I stayed for about 10 days visiting many of the towns outside of Anchorage.

I believe it was near Seward that I was able to get to see a glacier. 

I wasn't able to get close but had my Tamron 18-400 and zoomed into this abstract ice of the glacier. 

Even glaciers produce great artwork.

The melting glacier was creating multiple rivers and at the edge of one of the rivers in the sand I found another cool abstract artwork.

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