Admittedly blooming yellow Chamisa or Rabbitbrush (as they are also known) are not something I paid much attention to. However, once I moved to Santa Fe – where my flower photography journey began, this changed dramatically. It’s like everything was new again. Exploding With their Blooms in Late Summer, Early Fall It is then and […]
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Like many of the discoveries on this flower photography journey, Cosmos were another pleasant surprise. With their “daisy-like flowers that sit atop long, slender stems”, I find them to be such happy looking flowers. Learning a bit more background info on them, apparently Cosmos are a moderate re-seeder, which means that they drop plenty of
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Sunflowers with their towering stalks, bright yellow flower petals, dark centers and heads often the size of dinner plates are hard to miss. These big yellow flowers come in countless varieties and colors. A “beloved bloomer”, they are like the definitive summer flower. With Their Big Yellow Orbs Some Sunflowers tower above and can reach
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I’d say there has been a picture of a Coneflower on every bottle of Echinacea I’ve ever purchased. And by the amount of Echinacea I’ve taken over the years, one would think I’d have figured out that the pink-purple Coneflowers were one and the same. However, it was only once I began photographing them that
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Having lived in different areas of the southwest, it’s safe to say that Prickly Pear cactus are rather ubiquitous within the desert landscape. And perhaps the most familiar and recognizable. With their wide, branching, paddle-like leaves and nubby spines, they’re like the desert locals. Hanging out low to the ground and in clusters. Apparently they
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Like many of the other flowers on this photography journey, Foxtail Lilies were another amazing, eye-catching discovery! Having never seen them before, it took a bit of online searching to find out what they were. And to learn that not only were they known as Foxtail Lilies – but Desert Candles too! They appear to
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