Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

California Poppies & Sun (To Be A Poppy)

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I recently had a great time leading a client on a private wild flower photography workshop and was blown away by the beauty of the very green hills of the San Francisco bay area. If you’re unfamiliar with California Oak Trees you might think they’re always this green and beautiful, but in fact such vibrant color is fleeting as the vast majority of the year their leaves are yellow, orange and brown.

Turkey Vulture Flying Over Green Oak Trees (Quercus lobata) & Meadow - Ranch San Antonio Open Space

Amidst the sea of green were early signs of wild flower season, With late rains and cooler temperatures peak wild flower season has yet to reach Northern California, but even still a great variety of wild flowers cold be found. I’m still sorting through photos of the outing, but we had a good deal of luck at Rancho San Antonio open space and Pacheco State Park. Stay tuned there certainly will be more photos from this trip to come and I’m looking forward to the next time I’m able to share the beauty of wild flower season on my next private wild flower workshop.

Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) Under an Oak Branch

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.  ~Terri Guillemets

Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) - Rancho San Antonio Open Space, California

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One thing is constant no matter where I travel. What is common place for a local is often special to someone traveling through. Somehow when we are exposed to something, no matter how beautiful, day in and day out it often becomes less special. Yet when you show this “common” item to someone visiting the perception is completely different.

While in Utah I had this experience several times. Sunflowers on the side of the road… nothing special to the locals, yet an incredibly beautiful photographic subject to me. I suppose the moral of this thought is its sometimes helpful to put on the hat of a tourist where you live and rediscover what is in your own backyard.

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