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Where’s Waldo? Any motion blur in the flowers?
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Image Description
Horsetail Falls plunges down the wall of Keystone Canyon along the Richardson Highway, the entrance to Valdez.
The foreground flowers are Cow Parsnip (Pushki). The stems and leaves of which contain furocoumarins, chemicals responsible for the characteristic rash of erythematous vesicles (burn-like blisters) and subsequent hyperpigmentation that occurs after getting the clear sap onto one’s skin. The chemical is photosensitive, with the rash occurring only after exposure to ultraviolet light.
This was a windy day, requiring six images to render all the foreground flowers motionless and sharp. The individual images were assembled and blended to achieve what is presented here. There was a solitary worker bee (Waldo) moving throughout the time I was making the image(s), You can find it in the lower left one-third of the composition.
Technical Details
Canon EOS 5D II; Canon EF 16-35mm @ 32mm, f/11 @ 1/160 sec, ISO 500; Gitzo tripod, RRS BH 55; remote trigger
Specific Feedback
Whatever you wish, positive or otherwise.