{"id":5426,"date":"2012-07-30T05:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2024-09-08T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:45:36","slug":"lupines-of-the-centennial-valley-of-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/07\/30\/lupines-of-the-centennial-valley-of-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupines of the Centennial Valley of Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

My lenses are usually pointed at birds but I can’t resist taking images of the wildflowers I see on my photographic journeys either.<\/p>\n

\"SilverySilvery Lupine in the Centennial Valley of Montana – Nikon CoolPix S550, f3.5, 1\/906, ISO 64, 6mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

This photograph was taken in July of 2010 in the Centennial Valley of Montana using my Nikon Point & Shoot camera. I wish I had been using one of my D200 with a wide angle lens on it instead because I would have liked the ability to work on this image in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) but the point & shoot I have doesn’t take RAW images. On my last trip to the Centennial Valley the Lupines hadn’t yet carpeted the slopes as shown in the photo above.<\/p>\n

\"SilverySilvery Lupine – Centennial Valley, Montana – Nikon D300, f7.1, 1\/40, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 200mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe these are Silvery Lupine<\/a><\/span> (Lupinus argenteus<\/em>), taken on my recent trip to southwestern Montana using my bird setup to do a close up image. I love the dark greens combined with the varying shades of blue and purple.\u00a0 I am sure by now these beautiful wildflowers are covering the gentle slopes in the Centennial Valley like they are in the first image.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my flower, shrub and tree photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe these are Silvery Lupine (Lupinus argenteus), taken on my recent trip to southwestern Montana using my bird setup to do a close up image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1513,223,12,5347],"tags":[1516,4026,4101,1709,4069,5070,1708,4018,11143,4307],"class_list":["post-5426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-wildflowers","tag-beaverhead-county-2","tag-centennial-valley","tag-clouds","tag-lupinus-argenteus","tag-mountains","tag-purple-wildflowers","tag-silvery-lupine","tag-sky","tag-slopes","tag-wildflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t