Greg

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20090315 Lake Elsinore Wild Flowers

If you like them, please avoid stepping on them, even in places that no others may come after you leave.

This day is my first time out hunting for flowers. I got up at 5:30, and took off at 6:00.

It was a overcast day. The sun was only briefly visible before and at around noon. A good but not perfect day for shooting. Some of the photos have been PS enhanced.

The first trail I hit on was posted by Xianren - parked the car at the freeway exit and walked up about 3 miles.

1. This spot is 2-3 miles N/E from I-15 Lake Street Exit. Shot taken on slop, about 50yd off trail near a power line tower.

The orange colored areas are patches of California Poppy flowers,

2. Further down. I should had brought a walking stick.

3. This view is from the Edison maintenance road trail. The Edison entrance is 1 mile south of Lake St exit. Go about 3/4 miles take the right turn go down and over two more hills. I sprained my ankle going down one of the hillsides.

4. The blossom that quietly explodes, the livelihood that can not be isolated

5. A touch felt in our hearts, a moment sweet as it has always been, a day imprinted in our memory that will forever last

6. At 2:30pm, I came back into the mountains with pro photographer Doug Sprock.

Besides California Poppy, the smaller flowers are yellow Goldfields and white Popcorn Flowers

7. Follow the pro's angle of view . Each time I look at this photo, I like it more. Thanks, Doug.

8. Doug Sprock taking a shot

9. Doug's Pick again

Nature's paintbrush, free yet delicate, wild yet gentle

10. Doug's Idea.

Like water flows vastly, like a crowd gathers from all places

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11. Macro of a flower

Beauty, outreaching

12. two flowers and a leaf

13. Shyness

Like a smile of a beauty,

brightens a world of many

14. Beautiful.

Standing there

making others wish time is forever

15. Lava Covered Mountains. The sun came and went at about 10-12 PM.

16. Today's best shot

17.

A happy crowd flowing down the hill,

I wonder which fair all are heading for

18.

You are delicate, you live short, for once you brighten the world

19. A Trail Beautifully Disserted

20. Two sisters

Root in the same dirt, drink the same water, come and go, we watch each other

21. Pro's Frame

This beautiful photo will always remind me of the great landscape photographer, Doug Sprock, who generously taught me about wild flowers and shooting wild flowers.