Here's an image I shot today of a spotted coralroot among the ferns out in the BWCAW near Ely. Coralroots are not rare, but the spotted is the least common of them all. My goal is to capture all the wild orchid species native to the Minnesota boreal forest (a surprisingly large number), so I was thrilled to add this one to the collection.
Now if I could just find a calypso orchid (fairy slipper), I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven.
This flower/petal cluster, by the way, is about half the diameter of a dime, and the flowers alternate up the long red shaft of the plant. A delicate and precious flower.
Canon 30D, Canon 100 f2.8 macro, iso125, 2.5 sec at f11, tripod, remote release, flower stalk stabilized
I fought a little bit to get the whites right on the screen. They always look different here once posted than they do on my own screen in photoshop, so if the whites look a touch dingy, that's why.
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