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Posts from the ‘Wildflowers’ Category

Mar 26

Prickly Poppy

A friend and I hiked a favorite canyon a couple of days ago and were so disappointed with the low amount of flower displays this year. This particular place is usually loaded with Southwestern Prickly Poppies which are especially fun to photograph because they are so large. Today I’m posting a Prickly Poppy captured in Infrared up at the Grand Canyon last year. I played with the image channels to introduce some false color.

Mar 24

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Fruit Fly

Here’s another shot from our rainy day Monday. This fly on the Blackfoot Daisy was about an 1/8th of an inch long. I used my 100mm Macro with a 25mm extension tube to capture him and then cropped the image to enlarge him more. I haven’t been able to ID him yet but based on his patterned wings, green eyes and especially his size, my guess is he’s a fruit fly of some kind. I don’t have fruit trees so maybe he was just getting a drink of water 🙂

Mar 23

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Poppy Dreams

Infrared capture of Poppies ( 2008). Only memories this year……darn it. (Converted Canon 5D and 15mm lens).

Mar 22

Blackfoot Daisy

When our last frost hit, wildflowers had already started sprouting and most were knocked back down. Disappointing but there are some flowers that survived…… like Blackfoot Daisies, for instance. This one is in my yard but I’ve already spotted several in the North Access of the Preserve. We had a wonderful soft rain all day yesterday which will be great for these and other flowers still to come. Captured with 100mm macro and 25mm extension tube.

Mar 19

Goodings Verbena

We spotted this lone Goodings Verbena on Thursday in Camp Creek area.

Mar 15

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Brittlebush

We can always count on Brittlebush to give us flowers. The blurred background was achieved by setting my Canon 180mm Macro lens to f/5.6. It was one of the rare occasions when I used a tripod 🙂

Mar 14

No Poppies in Sight Yet

There’s a glimmer of hope here and there but it’s beginning to look like our recent snow and late frost might have knocked all the little wildflowers back down 🙁

(A favorite Poppy image from a good year.)

Mar 9

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First Sighting

Besides finding the Queen of the Night, we also saw our first Poppy on Monday! It was really tiny but I spotted a few more so let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope for a big show!

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