Poppies are in!

Nikolai

Yesterday (Saturday April 3d 2010 that is) I went on a scouting trip to see if the poppies are ready. It turned out - they are :-)

Here are a few snaps from the trip!

#1: Apparently, I was not the only one with this idea:



#2: People were pretty much everywhere - outside the official gounds, like me:



#3: And on the trails of the official park grounds:



#4: Yet another look at the park grounds:



#5: Poppies!



#6: Trying shallow DOF:



#7: That 100mmkII IS sure comes in handy sometimes:



#8: And for dessert: a mandatory "muench star" from the Joshua Tree in Saddleback Butte park:



Enjoy!

This post was made with the assistance of Star*Explorer

BradfordBenn

Nice shots Nik. I really like #6

Nikolai

BradfordBenn wrote:

Nice shots Nik. I really like #6

Thanks, Brad!

schmoo

Nice colors, Nik! And holy cow those are a lot of photographers taking advantage of them, too. Hope not too many of the blooms were stepped on.

Nikolai

schmoo wrote:

Nice colors, Nik! And holy cow those are a lot of photographers taking advantage of them, too. Hope not too many of the blooms were stepped on.

Thanks Steph!
I don't know about them, but me and my party were verrrrry careful about that.

mr peas

I like #5. That's it, I'm driving out to catch me some wildflowers! Where did you shoot these at if you don't mind me asking Nik?

Nikolai

mr peas wrote:

I like #5. That's it, I'm driving out to catch me some wildflowers! Where did you shoot these at if you don't mind me asking Nik?

Thanks!
It's Antelope Valley, Caifornia Poppies National Reserve, just 10 miles off Lancaster...

riddim_maker

Nice shots Nikolai,
I was there also last week but seems like there's a better poppy show outside the reserve.
I was told that the peek is expected in a week or two. I'll be going back then

Nikolai

riddim_maker wrote:

Nice shots Nikolai,
I was there also last week but seems like there's a better poppy show outside the reserve.
I was told that the peek is expected in a week or two. I'll be going back then

Thanks!
Yeah I hope to come back also (but now with a model or two:-)

Thwack

Looks like the field of flowers from the Wizard of Oz. Hope they didn't make you sleep.

Nikolai

Thwack wrote:

Looks like the field of flowers from the Wizard of Oz. Hope they didn't make you sleep.

It does, doesn't it?;-)
And no, I don't know about any sedating effect of these little poppies...