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Friday, April 10, 2026
By Mike Moats Photography
When:
Spring
Where:
Wooded Area,
Michigan
How:
If you’ve ever seen the bloodroot flower you know that it has a large leaf that will wrap itself around the flower, which opens in full sun and closes at night. As evening approaches the flower is starting to close for the night. I searched for a flower that was positioned to offer backlighting from the low evening sunlight. The backlighting shines through the large leaf showing off all the great looking veins. To get the exposure correct of the brightly lit leaf, it under exposed the background. I set the aperture at f/8 to give enough focus on the flower and leaf, but soften the background.