Below you'll find a list of all posts from February, 2008
Desert Sand Verbena, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
The weather has warmed up here into the low 80’s this week. We had rain in 3 of our first 8 days here, and now the warm weather seems to have jumped started the wildflowers, they are suddenly showing in many more places now. I think the next week or two should be pretty good.
Pumpkin Patch, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
This is such an interesting, almost lunar like place. I waited until after sunset and the lite the pumpkins with a flash light during a 30 second exposure. I have wanted to try this technique at this location for some time – it just seemed appropriate for some reason.
I stumbled upon this guy on my way to photograph sunset, look at the size of that camera! It captures a 20 x 24 inch image.
I was in a hurry, and I didn’t want to pester the guy as he set up, but I had to ask a few questions.Read More
Costa’s Hummingbird Nest.
I thought I would stick with the bird theme. This hummingbird is tiny! According to Sibley, it is one of our smallest birds – it weighs in at 3.5 grams. I shot this right at sunrise with a 600, plus 2x converter, plus extension tubes and still couldn’t fill the frame.
You can see this little gal right outside the Anza-Borrego Visitor Center. Employees roped off the area surrounding the nest after a dog started sniffing near the nest; that does make finding the bush with the nest a lot easier, look for the barriers.
Anna’s Hummingbird Nest.
I found this nest a few days ago. I must admit, I couldn’t help but think of her during the night as the wind blew and the rain came down. I can’t imaging how much the branches most have been moving around as she sat there keeping the two little jellybean sized eggs warm.
They have a fourteen day incubation period, I look forward to seeing the chicks.
It was actually raining fairly hard when I took this photo of barrel cactus in Anza-Borrego – I think the moisture helped with the saturation. I plan on returning to this spot again in the weeks to come, I would love to catch it at sunrise, with blooms etc. Captured with a Canon tilt / shift lens.
Palm Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.
We have hiked around in this wonderful canyon two days in a row – there are endless photo opportunities. The palms have all kinds of cool patterns, but in addition to the palms, you can’t beat all the water flowing through the area right now. There are a bunch of waterfalls just like this one – they seem so out of place in this desert environment. There are also numerous Brittlelbush and other flowers just waiting to bloom – I think there could be further opportunities in this scenic canyon in a week or so when the flowers bloom.
Unlike last year at this time, we haven’t seen any sheep in the canyon. Rangers say they were seeing them regularly up until about a week ago.
Update on Friday 9:00 a.m. PST: It has been raining most of the night, and continues to come down right now – this is the second good soaking this area has received in the past week. This should do nothing but help the wildflowers!
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