March theme: Wildflowers - Page 2 ***Post New Pics Here***

I've locked the first Wildflowers thread and started page 2 here.

American Basin, Colorado

Anasazi Tower. Cedar Mesa, Utah.

Beautiful stuff, Adam. This is too much much fun. I'm developing a major case of cabin fever. Here is another one I posted previously. From Petroleum Lake, Colorado.

Shot last summer near Wall Lake in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. Sorry, I couldn't resist posting one more.

This shot didn't accomplish what I wanted. The clump of grass at the bottom has a lot of water droplets hanging from it. I wanted them to feature prominently in this image but they just don't show up, especially at this size. I think it's framed too tight to be a nice mini cascade and wildflower shot. Oh well, here it is anyway.

Cheers,

Adam and Mark... wow! Those are stunners!

Now here's one from the mid 90's that, while perhaps not a "grand view", is not a macro, indisputably contains several wildflowers, and adds to the (so far) underrepresented desert subcategory. Gates Pass, a few miles west of Tucson.

Sorry, I couldn't resist posting one more

Mark, keep 'em coming!

Now here's one from the mid 90's that, while perhaps not a "grand view", is not a macro, indisputably contains several wildflowers, and adds to the (so far) underrepresented desert subcategory. Gates Pass, a few miles west of Tucson.

Don, it does seem as though we've forgotten about the desert but you've made up for it with this shot!

Another desert shot from Cedar Mesa. I know they're not exactly wildflowers but the image was captured during the wildflower season.

Another desert shot from Cedar Mesa. I know they're not exactly wildflowers but the image was captured during the wildflower season.

Great shot, Adam. But not exactly wildflowers? So they were planted by the Anasazi? Cabeza de Vaca? Padre Escalante? The San Juan Mission? Everitt Reuss? Ed Abbey? SUWA? Michael Kelsey (at a dead sprint)? Surely not the BLM!

Nice ones Adam, Mark and Don. Here is another one from Mount Rainier. I have some from here at Shrine Ridge, but they don't really speak to me. I'll have to get out more this year.

So you want landscapes with flowers too? Ohhh Ok here ya go! From the East River up Gothic Road near Crested Butte Co, Mt Crested Butte in the background at Sunrise. A Haze from a forrest Fire neaqrby lent a hand on this one.

Great shot, Adam. But not exactly wildflowers? So they were planted by the Anasazi? Cabeza de Vaca? Padre Escalante? The San Juan Mission? Everitt Reuss? Ed Abbey? SUWA? Michael Kelsey (at a dead sprint)? Surely not the BLM!

Thanks! I love the Michael Kelsey comment.

Steve, great shot of Rainier! It does look a bit cool though.

James, I kind of like the smokey sky look, we get a lot of it here when there are fires in Arizona.

Adam, I think you are right about the color being cool. I think I may have to rescan this image. This is the original from a slide scan about 10 years old. If it gives you any clue, the native format of the scan is a bitmap image!

"Hosta" La Vista baby!

Personally this is not a favorite shot because it is soft focused and off center, but i was just having fun with the wordplay. Besides, I didn't photograph the flower part either!

James, despite the flaws you mention I find this image quite compelling. I think that with a little trimming on the left followed by digital filtering to firm up the edges* and subsequent sharpening you will have an image (if no longer a "photo") well worth displaying.

And I am just perverse enough to enjoy your pun as well.

* For this purpose I like to use the "dust and scratch" filter in Corel PhotoPaint at its heaviest setting, repeating as necessary to achieve the desired effect. I'm sure PS has an equivalent filter.

Stunning work everyone. I'll add one more taken in August on Independence Pass. The stormy BG against the sunny FG appealed.

Pam

Nice, Pam. I bet that richly textured foreground gets downright tactile at higher resolution! I'd love to see it big.

Now, since James posted one with NO flowers I suppose I can post one with TINY flowers. Escalante River Gorge, late May of last year. The middle-ground flowers are scarlet globemallow. The FG flowers... I don't know. Any ideas?

Don this is stunning and hypnotic!

Don this is stunning and hypnotic!

Thanks, James! Now I want you to stare at it long and hard while repeating, "I will buy Don a wide-carriage printer. I will buy..." etc.

On the morning on which I took that shot, the bounce light was glorious and the air was breathlessly still... perfect shooting conditions for the DOF-challenged. I might have thought I had died and gone to heaven, but the subsequent hour that I spent picking the resulting burrs out of my socks quickly brought me back to reality. BTW, the capture medium is Kodak UC400 negative film. It has much better exposure latitude than chromes, adequate granularity and sharpness for MF, and scans quite willingly.

Ok my last submission to this topic and by far one of my better selling images. I don't know why, but it has been very successful for me. I found this little grouping on a hike near Mt Belleview above Rustler's Gulch outside of Crested Butte. Maybe it's the simplicity of it.

Here is one from near South Cottonwood Creek.