David777
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Although I've always worked plenty of close-up shots like this earlier post, my main work is landscapes. Over decades, I shot 35m SLRs, then 6x7 medium format film, then 4x5 view camera film, before going full digital in 2014 per below. Besides photographing, I also study natural sciences including botany science and California wildflower species. So like many British folk, know the scientific names, not just the common names. All so incredibly fascinating that I could continue to enjoy eternally if not an organic moral.
A flower a day ...
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Some California desert areas at least once a decade, have arguably the most expansive wildflower areas on our planet. As a several decades landscape photographer, I have many large wildflower landscapes. Areas of Carrizo Plain National Monument that tend to peak in late March IMO are most impressive. This first image above from April 2017, is a 3 frame 3 column 24 shot, focus stacked and stitched blend 9800 by 6000 pixels, downsized for web above shows vast miles of mostly yellow species wildflowers though there are plenty of other species colors in other areas. That was late in the afternoon during moments of uncommon calm.
Nine miles distant in the background badlands mountains of the above image is this difficult to reach canyon into which I was the only human to ever visit that year. All those mountains have these same species. This below image is a 4 frame 24 shot, focus stacked and stitched blend 11400 by 5400 pixels, downsized for web herein.
The below from March 2024, is a 4000 by 6000 pixel (24 megapixels) 22 shot single frame, focus stack blended close-up image downsized for the web herein, of desert candles, caulanthus inflatus, in that landscape. This is a single frame from my Sony a6000, I recently sent along with several older lenses to a niece in Colorado since I now use the recent a6700 and newer lenses.
And below is a 100% pixels crop showing actual fine detail of And yes the stalks are hollow.
A flower a day ...
(right Mouse select "Open Image in New Tab")
Some California desert areas at least once a decade, have arguably the most expansive wildflower areas on our planet. As a several decades landscape photographer, I have many large wildflower landscapes. Areas of Carrizo Plain National Monument that tend to peak in late March IMO are most impressive. This first image above from April 2017, is a 3 frame 3 column 24 shot, focus stacked and stitched blend 9800 by 6000 pixels, downsized for web above shows vast miles of mostly yellow species wildflowers though there are plenty of other species colors in other areas. That was late in the afternoon during moments of uncommon calm.
Nine miles distant in the background badlands mountains of the above image is this difficult to reach canyon into which I was the only human to ever visit that year. All those mountains have these same species. This below image is a 4 frame 24 shot, focus stacked and stitched blend 11400 by 5400 pixels, downsized for web herein.
The below from March 2024, is a 4000 by 6000 pixel (24 megapixels) 22 shot single frame, focus stack blended close-up image downsized for the web herein, of desert candles, caulanthus inflatus, in that landscape. This is a single frame from my Sony a6000, I recently sent along with several older lenses to a niece in Colorado since I now use the recent a6700 and newer lenses.
And below is a 100% pixels crop showing actual fine detail of And yes the stalks are hollow.
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we will see some to take a few photos
