Three Views of the Scarlet Bugler -- The Close-up

The close up. Taken with a 300mm F4 lens of an early Scarlet Bugler at the mouth of American Fork Canyon. The photograph was taken just after a late spring snow storm. The large drops of water function as lenses. Unfortunately, I did not have a macro lens along so I could not capture a true macro image.

I had never photographed the Scarlet Bugler before and thought them rare. The mouth of the canyon is at 4300 feet. The summit of the Alpine Loop, which circumnavigates Mt Timpanogos, is 8060 feet, so as spring matured the flowers were found at higher elevations. Scarlet Buglers were everywhere.