Dodocantheon

Hendersonii is our local species of the Shooting Star.  It's one of the earlier flowers to bloom on our local prairies and is mostly gone by the end of April.  The stalk branches at the top with a loose cluster of blooms, so it's pretty difficult to find an angle like this with a single bloom isolated.  I did have toclone out the edge of one petal that partly obscured the stem on the right edge of the image.  The foliage poking into the bottom is the leaves of the Camas, which blooms a bit later, though they overlap one another. 

This image was from the spring of 2014 when I did quite a bit of floral photography.

5D3, 180mm f3.5 macro, tripod, f/11, 1/100, iso 400, aperture priority, pattern metering, +2/3 EV.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  I blurred the bg and desaturated it a bit to try to deemphasize the oof stem coming at a diagonal across the image.  Full frame.  Taken on our local prairie preserve at 7:43 am on April 1st, 2014.

I appreciate your comments on the buttercup and look forward to your input on this image.

Thanks,