Maddog Murph
SuperBloom
Sometimes I push myself to my limits to make things happen. I visited this exact location in 2016 at the end of a long trip in the Southwest. Boy was I disappointed to find nothing but brown barren hills in spring!! And I thought there was plenty of rain to support at least some wildflowers. This year something very different happened.
The entire plains came alive. There were so many flowers, that the bees seemed remote and sparse. I'm sure it was a dream come true for any honey bee, as far as we could see in all directions the hills were covered in bright flowers. There was nothing to see but beauty in all directions, although my jeep barely made it through some of the roads we had to explore to find these places. It's seen some rough terrain, but some of the wash outs were incredibly dangerous and required exceptional handling skills.
The image is focus stacked for maximum depth of field, taken at sunrise. There was a slight amount of cloning to remove a road that I didn't think added much, and a little bit of stretch to compensate for the wide angle lens the shot was taken with as I didn't have time to shift lenses, the light was changing very fast.
SuperBloom
Sometimes I push myself to my limits to make things happen. I visited this exact location in 2016 at the end of a long trip in the Southwest. Boy was I disappointed to find nothing but brown barren hills in spring!! And I thought there was plenty of rain to support at least some wildflowers. This year something very different happened.
The entire plains came alive. There were so many flowers, that the bees seemed remote and sparse. I'm sure it was a dream come true for any honey bee, as far as we could see in all directions the hills were covered in bright flowers. There was nothing to see but beauty in all directions, although my jeep barely made it through some of the roads we had to explore to find these places. It's seen some rough terrain, but some of the wash outs were incredibly dangerous and required exceptional handling skills.
The image is focus stacked for maximum depth of field, taken at sunrise. There was a slight amount of cloning to remove a road that I didn't think added much, and a little bit of stretch to compensate for the wide angle lens the shot was taken with as I didn't have time to shift lenses, the light was changing very fast.