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I don't make as much time for personal photos as I'd like, so I'm posting a quick study of purple coneflowers at the Horicon Marsh. My goal specifically was to create at least one good study image of this flower. When most people go out to photograph, they hope to find an image. When I go out, I expect to craft an image, and my standard for what I'll take home is much higher, which is why it took two evenings, about one total hour of shooting, and several pieces of gear besi