Pinhoti Wildflowers
Pinhoti Wildflowers
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Perhaps the best part of the Pinhoti Trail is the little gems you find around every corner. A dell with a lovely brook, a peak through the trees across the mountain range, or a flower. I consider myself an amateur photographer, I love taking pictures. I've found it to be very difficult to capture the 'feel' of the trail, the long leaf pine forests, the small brooks, on film. However, flowers are a different story. I hope you enjoy these.
During my Pinhoti
thru-hike I took 7 rolls of film, many of them flowers. There are now too many pictures to fit on one page so I've created three pages of flowers for each season. They will take some time to download, I trust that the time is worth it. Visit the flowers of the Pinhoti by season: (33 pictures) 
Spring.
(13 pictures) 
Summer.
(8 pictures) Let me know what you think of the pictures, presentation, and/or photography. Also, I have named as many of the flowers as I know with the help of my father, I could use assistance identifying the rest. I hope you enjoy your time on the Pinhoti, remember to take time to stop and enjoy the flowers you pass, even those nestled way down among the pine needles. Here is a link to a great page devoted to 
Autumn.
Technical Details:
The pictures were taken with a Minolta 3xi camera using the macro function on my zoom lens. I love the macro function on this lens, it has allowed me to take great photos of flowers around the world, however it is limited in how close it gets. A few of the flowers appear fairly small. Many of the pictures were taken in low light using a shutter speed of 8, and a steady hand. To keep the size of the pages under control for those downloading them the pictures aren’t at maximum quality, but I think they look pretty good.
Photos were scanned in at 150 dpi resolution and edited using Adobe PhotoShop. I didn't change any of the colors, most of the editing consisted of darkening the background of the photos. There are a few that I did more extensive editing too, the butterfly picture in the summer collection was actually two pictures of the same flower, one with the butterfly and one without. Because the flower in the picture with the butterfly was out of focus, I combined the two pictures. See if you can tell. Also, I have tried to keep the pictures to a reasonable size for downloading while leaving them large enough that they are worth looking at. I hope they are worth the wait.
Updated: April 2000
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