Note: Over the years the focus of my website has shifted more towards climbing trip reports, so I stopped actively updating my photography section around 2015 or so. But, there are still several great photos here, so enjoy!
Flower Photographs
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(Cool fact: The alpine pink columbine that appears in the larger box above is a hybrid between the lower elevation crimson columbine and higher elevation alpine columbine. These rare and gorgeous flowers cannot reproduce, and are formed only when a bee happens to carry pollen from one species to the other. God's creation is pretty ingenious!
I have a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens that I use to take photos of flowers and bugs (click to open bug page). Macro photography is lots of fun, and gives a great appreciation for the detail in nature. Oftentimes, it takes patience and several shots to get a good photo of a flower fluttering in the breeze!
The following is a sampling of some of my favorite flowers, mostly from Washington, British Columbia, California, and Colorado.
Phlox, RMNP, CO.
Forget-me-not, RMNP, CO.
Fairy Primrose, RMNP, CO.
Fairy slipper, Estes Park area, CO.
Fairy slipper, Estes Park area, CO.
Iris, Estes Park area, CO.
Iris, Estes Park area, CO.
Draba, Estes Park area, CO.
Spotted Coralroot, Estes Park area, CO.
Spotted Coralroot, Estes Park area, CO.
One-sided penstemon, Estes Park area, CO.
One-sided penstemon, Estes Park area, CO.
Sweetvetch, Estes Park area, CO.
Miner's Candle, Estes Park area, CO.
Geranium, Estes Park area, CO.
Britton's Skullcap, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Hoary Alyssum, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Alpine spring beauty, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Blue-eyed Grass, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Blue-eyed Grass, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Zoomed in on Round Leaf Thimbleweed, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Field Pennycress, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Green Penstemon, Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
I call these mopheads. Lumpy Ridge, RMNP, CO.
Iris, Estes Park, CO.
Mountain Bluebells, CO.
Britton's Skullcap, CO.
Golden Aster, CO.
Shooting Star, CO.
Shooting Star, CO.
Shooting Star, CO.
Shooting Star, CO.
Stonecrop, CO.
Meadow Death Camas, CO.
Meadow Death Camas, CO.
Western Wallflower, CO.
Penstemon, CO.
Goldenrod (I think), CO.
Dandelion, CO.
Sticky Geranium, CO.
Indian paintbrush in the Wind Rivers, WY.
Silky phacelia.
Sky pilot.
White columbine.
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) anomaly peloric monstrous terminal flower mutation caused by a double recessive gene at a locus called "centroradialis".
