Carrizo Plain trip a week and a half ago. Spent the night so I could be there for storm clouds at dawn. Soda Lake and starlings. Being there for the nice light was worth miles and miles of liquid-snot mud on the road in.
Owl's Clover, Carrizo Plain. I caught the last few seconds of sunlight on this flower patch. This was shot with my 200mm. It's hard to figure out which flowers to focus on, especially since I was racing the last seconds — literally! — of light and had no time to fiddle around with a tripod for a longer exposure. This patch was off Elkton Road.
Carrizo Plain yesterday at sunset. Owl's Clover (Castilleja exserta someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
I haven't processed any of my DSLR photos. These are just phone snaps.
It's only about four hours from the Bay Area and an hour or two from LA. The best flowers I saw on this trip right now, are up on Elkhorn Road and 7 Mile Road. The vast swathes of color bathing the hillside have faded but there are lots of beautiful small patches of flowers. #BloomScrolling#BloomStrolling
I was there right after the rain, in order to get photos with stormy skies. The dirt roads were slimy mud pits, but they should be passable with a normal vehicle by now.
Carrizo Plain yesterday at sunset. There are still very large patches of these taller yellow flowers and the low growing "goldfields", as well as purple owl's clover.
#CarrizoPlain#BloomScrolling#Flower anyone know what this one is? It was the only one I saw in my explorations the last few days. It was at the foot of the Temblor Range.