This time while lying on the ground with the Venus Optics Laowa 15mm macro.
AKA Red Trillium-Trillium erectum, this one, and a few others, lived up to the species name by standing erect. Most often they droop as you see in the two behind, which offers the added bonus of neck cricks. 🙂
The hardest part of using this lens, aside from all manual operation (good thing I am old enough to remember when they were all that way), is keeping the tripod legs which need to be splayed out flat out of the image.
Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
I thought I was going to see a photo of bird. 🙂 But this is even better. It looks maroon to me however the cataracts prevent me from seeing color accurately. The trillium is quite dainty and beautiful. Lovely photo Steve.
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You’re vision is not far off, Yvonne. Although called “red” it really is more purple and maroon is close enough. 🙂 Thanks.
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Hmm. I don’t see purple at all and Linda sees maroon as well. So really, what is the actual colr of the trillium?
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As I just mentioned to Steve S and Linda, there’s not enough brown in the petals for me to say it is more maroon than purple or red. But all our displays see color differently unless calibrated and even then all our eyes (cataracts or none) perceive color differently so you may very well see the color as maroon.
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I’m not one for an argument but it seems that color is in the eye of the beholder. It’s interesting that three of us who live in Texas see maroon. And now, Steve since you are the photographer you have the last or first word about the color. I must say that I’ve never been in a discussion to this extent about color or at least not to my knowledge. I’m putting it to rest now. It is a beautiful little flower and I’m glad to now, know its name. I don’t think I’ll forget it anytime soon. 🙂 Steve, I hope I haven’t given you a headache. 🙂
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Oh no, not at all, Yvonne. I didn’t see this as an argument in any way, just a discussion among friends. And while I may be the photographer, the viewer is just as important. I always appreciate your comments and every one else too. Don’t hesitate to say what you feel!.. 🙂
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Thanks, Steve.
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I see maroon, too, Yvonne, and my cataracts aren’t hanging around to distort things any more.
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Linda, thank you. I have not taken care of myself for the 15 months while being deeply involved with my son and then my sister. I am now working on my own health and will soon get the needed surgery done.
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Maroon has more brown to it and I don’t really see that here.
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This could be a matter of definition, because I don’t think of maroon as having any — or much — brown to it.
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Yes, it is the definition of maroon…red and brown…or brown and red. 🙂
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/maroon
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Well… whatever. 🙂
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With my very wide angle lenses I have to be careful not to include my feet.
Maroon seems just the right word for the flower’s color.
Like you, I learned with all manual camera adjustments. My Pentax Spotmatic was the first camera to have a built-in light meter. All I had to do was play with the aperture and shutter speed until the little needle inside the viewfinder came to rest in a horizontal position. Of course that still didn’t guarantee that I’d gotten the focus right; there was no confirmation for that.
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For me Maroon, aside from the meaning given by Bugs Bunny, has a bit more brown to it which I don’t see on my calibrated display. But…WordPress is terrible in my estimation at color control (especially for saturation) so aside from the variety of appearances color can take on various monitors, WP could show anything. I can live with people seeing it as maroon, but here it is definitely reddish purple…or purplish red.
On my old Canon F-1n, I had a little split circle that would form a perfect circle when correctly focused. I used one of those angle viewers (whose name I can no longer recall) that had a choice of multipliers which fit on the viewfinder to be more precise with focus. Today, 99.5+% of my shots are still manually focused only now with the 5x or 10x magnifiers in LiveView.
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Yeah, I’ve also been disappointed by the way WP can distort images.
The color chip shown for maroon at
https://www.quora.com/What-colors-do-you-mix-to-make-maroon
matches your flower on my monitor.
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The color does match mine also. But, if you read all the comments not everyone is in agreement on the makeup of maroon. Anyway, I am glad people like the image and a rose by any other name etc.
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Wonderful shot. Brings back memories of years ago when I first learned to identify Trillium on a Nature Conservancy walk in upstate New York.
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Thanks, Carol. Trilliums are among my favorites…with painted trillium number one…and I am hoping to buy one to have in my small woods. Either this erectum or the grandiflorum.
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I especially like the way the leaves on the ground complement the color of the trillium. The color difference between the leaves and the bracts (?) is interesting, too. I think that bright green leaf in the foreground might be a bit brighter because of the light.
When I got my macro lens, I decided to stick with manual focusing, and I’m glad I did. Over time, it’s gotten easier, and I’ve seen some improvement. I’ve learned to take a couple of pictures first, just to be sure I have the shutter speed, ISO, and etc. right. Then, I set about trying to focus. When it works, like it did here for you, it’s just great.
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Yes, although the day was quite overcast, the light was even and from above so the leaf at the angle it is was reflecting more light than the flower. My polarizer helped also with cutting down on the glare so the color is more even and the detail clearer.
It’s nice to be able to do all that experimenting now with digital and not having to feel you are wasting film. Eventually you will do all at once automatically. The more you do manually…focus, aperture and exposure…the more in control you will be.
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Wonderdul flower and the photo!
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Thank you, Bee.
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