Lupine Dream

I think it was Bill who gave me a little friendly encouragement not to long ago and so I thought I'd stop by and share a little summer wildflowers from the Sierra.

This was captured just a couple weeks ago up on the Sonora Pass right at 9,300ft in elevation. With the very long winter, the upper passes are later than normal for flowers. Fortunately there were a few good lupine blooming and even better, tons of other smaller flowers. Quite a show of wildflowers in the Sierra this year.

I just learned something new in commenting on some of the images before posting this. And that's the term "cramming." Is that what I've done here with this image? I shot through other lupine getting them close to the lens to blur them and thus providing some nice color. Is that what cramming is?

Captured of course with the 4x5, a 300mm lens and this is pretty much the full frame. I see a few other potential crops, but thought I would start with the original capture. Film is Velvia, so I've actually pulled back the green/blue/purple saturations a little bit. Curious to know how the saturation and colors in general look.

I also added a slight bit of blurring at the bottom of the image. But pretty much the oof focus areas are a result of shooting wide open (which is f/9).

Enough rambling, I would love to hear your thoughts on this one.

Thanks!
Lon