This image was made early on an overcast Monday morning along the Witch Hole Pond Carriage Road in Acadia National Park. The previous day we had walked this carriage road in the rain with a group from the Acadia Birding Festival. Cameras were left behind and binoculars brought in their place. By this time, I had been searching in vain for Lady's Slippers for almost a week. Suddenly while watching a Piliated Woodpecker do her stuff, I looked down and there right along the side of the road was a Pink Lady's Slipper. A little further on, I spotted a second. So early the next morning, my wife and I schlepped off in search of the two. We managed to relocate both of them and I was able to get down in the run-off and photograph both.
Backgrounds were pretty busy so I had to open up the aperture in order to blur the background.
Canon 30D; Sigma 150mm Macro lens; tripod-mounted
1/40 sec at f/5.0; ISO 800; -1/3 EV (that should be an indication of how overcast it was)






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