Skagit Tulips

[regnaD kciN]

The annual Skagit Tulip Festival runs throughout the month of April. However, due to the late winter up here in the Pacific Northwest, for most of the Festival's run, there were no tulips visible! Finally, in the last week or so, the blooms finally appeared, giving tourists a few days of color before the harvesting began.

[NV Whino]

1. Great!

I love those little rebels that sneaked in.

[bridgit]

2. Lovely, I like the ones down in the rows very nice

[regnaD kciN]

3. Thanks...

My back's still not quite recovered from those, which were obtained by setting the tripod to the lowest level possible, putting on an ultra-wide-angle lens, and kneeling between those rows, with the nearest flowers about an inch from the camera. On the bright side, I now know that my industrial-strength set of kneepads work fine!

[bridgit]

4. LOL, a botanist friend takes people into the field it's cute...

he calls it 'belly button botany' and has all these kids on their belly's looking at stuff in open field...it's a little appreciated camera angle till you've been down there congrat'z on your pads working out cool snaps thanks for posting :thumbsup: