Photo ABCs

California Poppies

All done with Arizona photos!

For something different, California Poppies, photographed at Huntington Central Park West in April of this year:

 

Vallarta Botanical Garden

Vallarta Botanical Garden is a tropical paradise just south of Puerto Vallarta.

In addition to being a bird watcher's paradise and diner's paradise (the Hacienda del Oro restaurant there is amazing!), of course it is full of interesting tropical plants.

Here are a few abstract pictures I took while there in March, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

California Poppy

A California Poppy is a floral ray of sunshine.

Photographed at Lake Hodges in April of this year:

Hotel Jardines, San Quintin

San Quintin, Baja California, lies about 185 miles south of the border.

The town is home to a huge, well protected bay, and was originally settled by the British in the 1880's. A large millstone and other artifacts from this settlement are seen by the harbor.

One of the hidden jewels of San Quintin is Hotel Jardines (Garden Hotel). This hotel lives up to its name. The owners have transformed a large barren plot of land into an oasis of flowers and fruit trees.

Here are a few of the many flowers found on the property, all but one photographed with portrait mode on the iPhone.

Mexican Plumeria:

Another Plumeria:

Day Lily:

Lantana:

Amaryllis:

Purple Orchid Tree:

Wild Prairie Rose

The state flower of North Dakota. Photographed at Lake Metigoshe State Park, North Dakota, in June of this year.

Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge

Aside from rich bird life, the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge is a haven for plant life.

Photographed in May of this year.

Flower

I don't know the name of this flower, but I liked the composition!

The softness of the image, in part, is caused by using a very long lens with a shallow depth of field, as well as shooting through a small opening in the vegetation of the plant with the red flowers.

Photographed last week at Fullerton Arboretum.

Sierra La Laguna

For something a little different.

A flower, photographed in October 2013 in the Sierra La Laguna, mountains north of Cabo San Lucas, in Baja California.

I would love to know the name of the flower!

 

Hacienda Tenexac, Tlaxcala, Mexico

La Antigua, Veracruz

I love the colors of Mexico.