California Poppy Reserve (trip #2)

aero-nut

The poppies are not quite in full bloom yet, but getting there. Amazing year for wildflowers in California.









(the mountain in the background is yellow because it is covered in flowers)

Michael_Hansen

Nice shots! It has been a fantastic year for wildflowers.

bfjr

Yes it has and your shots prove it

jwear

morning and evening the poppy folds up did you shot this real early or late ??nice shots Jeff

Shakey

very cool I wish I was there to see and shoot for myself. Although these do far more justice than my meager attempt would produce.

Tim

aero-nut

Thanks all, for your kind comments.


I didn't know that, jwear. Very interesting. I was taking these shots between about 3 pm and 5 pm. It was also a very windy, kind of chilly day.

gpgold

aero-nut wrote:

The poppies are not quite in full bloom yet, but getting there. Amazing year for wildflowers in California.









(the mountain in the background is yellow because it is covered in flowers)

Shots three and four just blow me away. What was the date of these? I think I need to go back this weekend. Were these with the D-Rebel? Hand-held or tripod?

regards,

Gary

gus

Nice...

Harryb

aero-nut wrote:

The poppies are not quite in full bloom yet, but getting there. Amazing year for wildflowers in California.
(the mountain in the background is yellow because it is covered in flowers)

I with Gary. The 3rd and 4th shots are exceptional.

aero-nut

gpgold wrote:

Shots three and four just blow me away. What was the date of these? I think I need to go back this weekend. Were these with the D-Rebel? Hand-held or tripod?

regards,

Gary

Gary,

The date was 3-20-05...it's definately a good time to go...although I think they will probably peak in another week or so, as long as we don't have a lot of hot weather before then.

All shots were with a D-Rebel. Most were hand-held, but a few I used a monopod. For the wide landscape shots I used f/14 or so at 200 ISO.