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button April 10th 2008 - California Wildflower Photography

I spent a few hours hiking a SoCal canyon, taking in the sights, and enjoyed photographing the native California wildflowers. It was a breezy cool cloudless day, which is great for hiking, but not the best conditions for flower photography. But I'm not complaining, it was a beautiful day.

Southern California wildflower photography
This looks inviting

Cottonwood Canyon California wildflowers
A dry river bed appears to flow with gold

Yellow and purple, Goldfields and Lupine
Yellow and purple, Goldfields and Lupine

Natibe Goldfield flowers blowing in the wind
California blue and gold

Macro photo of a Goldfield flower
Spring is in the air

macro photography of a native California Common Madia
The variety of shapes and colors was amazing

Phacelia blooming
The hills are alive

macro photo of a lupine tip
Close up of a Lupine tip

Not sure what species this small purple flower is?
I hope to learn the names of all of these different flowers

purple and orange California spring wildflowers
There were flowers everywhere

A macro photo of small delicate purple flowers
Some of the flowers growing close to the ground were very small

Elegant purple flower macro photo
And elegant

small white California wildflowers
It was challenging photographing them in the wind

White Tidy Tips
These are the only White Tidy Tips I found

Blue-Dick flowers
The Blue-Dicks were blooming

macro close up photo of a fiddleneck
Fiddlenecks were a common sight

wide aperture macro with very shallow depth of field
I like this photo

white wildflower with a spash of rust color under the petals
Same species as the previous photo

The sun was setting quickly behind the canyon walls
The sun was setting quickly behind the canyon walls

Goldfields backlit
Stretching their necks for the final rays of sun

sunset in Cottonwood Canyon
Fiddlenecks in the foreground, Goldfields on the hills, and many others in between

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