Photographing Texas Wildflowers

April 23, 2010

Hello from the Hill Country in Central Texas. I am currently in my RV at Inks Lake State Park catching up on some business following 2 and a half days of photographing wildflowers throughout the area.

The timing of my visit couldn’t be better, as the wildflower display here is at it’s peak. I honestly have never seen anything like it before. Fields of blue and yellow with patches of flowers representing all the colors of the rainbow. Standing in a field of flowers, the smell from the bluebonnets can be intoxicating and at times almost overwhelming.

The first day and a half I spent the majority of my time photographing the bluebonnets. They were not hard to find as they were on display nearly everywhere – on the edges of roads, in fields behind businesses, along side roads, etc. The photograph below, taken with my iPhone, was photographed on one such side road.

Bluebonnets photographed with my iPhone

Yesterday the weather was cloudy and drizzly – perfect for macro photography – except for the wind. After over 100 photographs taken while looking through my macro lens of close-up flowers blowing in the wind – combined with the aroma of a dead skunk nearby – I was practically nauseous and had to rest for a while before driving on.

Below are two new releases, “Awakening” and “Morning”. These photos are now available in my New Arrivals Gallery. I hope you enjoy them. More photos of my wildflower trip will be added to the gallery in a couple weeks once I have more time to work on them.

"Awakening"

"Morning"

Tomorrow’s plans have me heading to San Antonio to photograph the missions again (I was there last year). Following that a possible trip to the beach at Corpus Christi – I haven’t seen the beach since I moved from Cape Cod in 2006!

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