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Laurinda Faye - featured flower photography club member

March 12, 2026

Laurinda Faye is my featured Flower Photography Club member and is from Stroudsburg, PA.Laurinda's equipment, Olympus OM1 Mark IIHere are five of Laurinda's beautiful flower images Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

When, Where, and How

March 12, 2026

When: SummerWhere: Vernal Pond / MichiganHow: This image was taken at the edge of a vernal pond in a wooded area. Vernal ponds are created by snowmelt and spring rains that collect in low areas of hilly terrain. They form in the spring and will usually dry up by August, unless we have a rainy summer. I have found many of these ponds in wooded areas at Stony Creek Metropark, Southeast Michigan. This Maple leaf was in a perfect position as an opening in the trees allowed the clouds from on ...

Fern - Before and After

March 11, 2026

Here is a fern image from the Meijer Botanical Gardens, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The fern is laying over a tree trunk, and I liked the contrast of the two subjects. Used my Tamron 18-300 with the Fuji X-T30 MKll, shot at f/32. In Smart Photo Editor I sharpened and click on a filter that added this dramatic lighted look you see. Here is the original out of the camera. Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club ...

Put Your Best Foot Forward

March 7, 2026

Put your best foot forward.To act in a way that causes other people to have a good opinion of you. All I could do is put my best foot forward and hope I make a good impression. From the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms.Lets make one change to this idiom.Put your best photos forward.When you set up your website or a portfolio of your images to showcase, only include your very best images.It’s better to show only your very best images, and not try an increase the size of the ...

I'm Honored

March 7, 2026

One of my photo friends sent me an email saying she was watching a YouTube video about genealogy and in the far-right side of the screen on the bookshelf she spotted my Tiny Landscapes book on display. I was honored that out of all her books she put mine on display. I wonder if she is a macro photographer. Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro ...

How To Be In The Right Place At The Right Time

March 7, 2026

Sometimes we capture an amazing photo, and when people ask how it happened, your answer could be, I was just in the right place at the right time. So how do we get to that place. Simple, by spending more time out shooting. The more time we spend out in the field, the better the chance we'll end up in the right place at the right time.I was shooting this Chicory flower, and as I was viewing the flower though the camera's viewfinder, I see the Hoverfly enter the frame, and I ...

Lois Van Reese - Featured Flower Photography Club Member

March 6, 2026

Lois Van Reese is my featured Flower Photography Club member and is from Hendersonville, NC (Blue Ridge Mountains).Lois's equipment, Canon EOS R; Canon 100 MM f2.8 Macro OR Tameron 28-300 MMHere are five of Lois's beautiful flower images. Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographe

Rules, or No Rules, That is the Question

March 6, 2026

Photographers that teach photo workshops will always include some kind of instruction about composing subjects in the frame. We have the rule of thirds, the golden rule, leading lines, light, depth, and other rules past down over the ages from painters to photographers. When we show our photos to other photographers that know the rules, they try and analyze an image to see if it fits within the rules, and if not maybe throw out a few suggestions to help out a fellow photographer in making ...

Matthew Berberich - Featured Flower Photography Member

March 3, 2026

Matthew Berberich is my featured Flower Photography Club member and is from Covington, Georgia.Matthew's equipment, Canon R5RF24-70mmRF100-500mmRF100mm macroOver the last year or so Matthews gone deeper into Photo Artistry and was featured in the international publication Living the Photo Artistic Life Magazine Issue No. 131 — January 2026. (Front cover and 5-page spread) I'm not sure if that is relevant to flower photography other than one of these images was ...

Macro Photographers, How to Avoid the Wind

March 3, 2026

The toughest thing that a macro photographer has to deal with beside clutter behind our subjects is the wind. Very difficult shooting flowers, plant life, bugs when the wind is blowing them around. This is how you manage the wind. Get out of bed early. Be out in the field at daybreak and you will have less or no wind for about 90 minutes, and once the sun gets higher up and air warms you will start to get some wind, that's when I head back home.So all my macro ...