Perfect sunset lighting.


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More tulips,  more wonder.


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It's that time of year again.

Every year I go up there in search of a new take on the tulips.  Sometimes I succeed,  sometimes I don't.  Some of these are "classic" shots of the tulips,  but a few scattered throughout are just a little different.


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And finally,  a few "classic" shots of the tulip fields.


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I found a field that had been planted with tulips the previous year,  and some of those tulips had managed to survive the harvesting and replanting of the field with a different crop this year.


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Folks,  I have pics of Tulips,  and I'm not afraid to post them.  See if I don't!


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And here's part 2.

All these tulips are grown for the bulbs.  They're dug up out of the ground and exported around the world.  Because these tulips are not grown for the blooms per se,  when the flowers are mature,  they're cut.  These next two images show the plants with the flowers cut off and left in the middle of the rows.


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Tonight after work I ran up to the Skagit Valley to shoot the tulips in the very powerful winds we had here today.

This first shot is a normal tulip shot that I'm sure lots of people get.  What I particularly like about this shot is the way that the tulips receding in the distance reminds me of New York skyscrapers.


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Hey all!

The tulips are blooming in the Skagit Valley,  and I made it up there yesterday with my kite.  I'm super excited about these photos,  it was the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival that made me first want to do Kite Aerial Photography,  and last year was largely a failure.  I'm hoping to make it up again before the tulips are gone,  but I'm happy ( Read more... )

Hi all,

For those of you wondering,  at the last minute I decided not to take my KAP rig to Hawaii,  so I don't have any KAP photos there.  It just ended up being a bit too much luggage.  Good thing I got lots of interesting photos with the DSLR.  :)

However!  The daffodils are now blooming in the Skagit Valley,  and yesterday I went up there and ( Read more... )