ANOTHER VISIT TO CAMP MOWANA--

This trillium and lots of its siblings welcomed our recent hike in Camp Mowana near Mansfield-- the site of my only childhood camping experiences more than 60 years ago.  The camp also is the location of Fleming Falls, one of the most attractive falls in the county and the reason for our visit.  Please stop by Saturday for a nice photo of that falls and some babbling  by the author.

For those of you who may be curious about that photo of the falls:  It was done with my Canon DSLR camera on a tripod and exposed in manual mode for 6/10 second at f/22 with an ISO of 100.  That relatively long exposure caused the rapidly flowing water to take on a silky appearance and is the reason I lugged the tripod back to the shooting location.

In the photo of the trillium above I also used the manual mode.  Many amateur photos like this will fail because the camera is usually in the auto mode and the photographer is not nearly as close to the flower as this photo appears.  Under those circumstances the camera will attempt to measure the very bright reflected light of the flower's white petals as well as the near blackness of the background and average the two--usually resulting in horribly overexposed petals.