140/365 : Wild Columbine.

Spent the day hiking 30 kilometres on the Bruce Trail, starting at Duncan Caves and finishing at Hogg’s Falls in Grey County. Along the way we hiked up on top of Old Baldy and for the first part of the hike the wildflowers were all over the place. Carpets of Trilliums and hundreds of these little red flowers, called Wild Columbine. I mentioned to another hiker that I would love to get underneath one of these and take a photo with the petals backlit by the bright sun. Problem was, I was toting around a DSLR with a decent lens and that would be a little difficult to wedge under a 6 – 10” flowering plant that’s pointing down. I would need one that’s up a little higher, and that would have to be in a sunbeam as well. Five minutes later on the hike, my request was answered as we found a clump growing on a mossy boulder and hanging over the edge, and it was in a sunbeam. I still had to lay on the ground to get my photo and the other hiker took lots of photos of THAT pose too :). I had over 350 photos for the day, but this one is the one that took the most work so it’s the one I’m going with for the photo of day #140.