More Flowers from the Southwest

Terri French · May 27, 2005

I have some more flowers that I would love to get identified. Pa helped me out with the last batch. Here are some more.

The first is a flowering bush. The bees just loved it.

View attachment 9510

View attachment 9511

I think the one below is a Prickly Pear

View attachment 9512

View attachment 9513

View attachment 9514

View attachment 9515

The picture below was to show plants growing in the Kryptobiotic soil

View attachment 9516

The next one is not the best exposure. Sorry I didn't nail it as this clump of flowers was magnificent. Also wondering about the yellow flowers in the background.

View attachment 9517

As always constructive criticism welcome. I realize that some of these pictures aren't as good as my last post. I still want to put them in my Moab gallery. Maybe on a return visit, I'll get better examples of these varieties.

Pa · May 27, 2005

Terri French said:

I have some more flowers that I would love to get identified. Pa helped me out with the last batch. Here are some more.
Click to expand...

My wife is out for the morning. I'm sure you'll get some names when she returns as several of these look quite familiar from our days in the SW.

viewfinder · May 27, 2005

Hi Terri,

Great series of desert flowers! I really like the saturation of the colours, did you do any post processing with these or are they off the camera saturation settings?

Surprising how much bright colours you get in a dry desert condition. I can sense the heat too, or is it dry and cool at this time of the year? I have no ideas, never been to a desert area before.

Regards,
Jonathan

Terri French · May 27, 2005

viewfinder said:

Hi Terri,

Great series of desert flowers! I really like the saturation of the colours, did you do any post processing with these or are they off the camera saturation settings?

Surprising how much bright colours you get in a dry desert condition. I can sense the heat too, or is it dry and cool at this time of the year? I have no ideas, never been to a desert area before.

Regards,
Jonathan
Click to expand...

Hi Jonathan,
I took them all in Raw and converted them in Adobe Photoshop CS2. The bright colors are amazing. It was very hot when we were there last weekend, but it cools down at night in that area. It is a higher elevation there.

The desert is interesting. I live in a high mountain desert in southern Idaho. Our conditions are much different from those in southern Utah.

Micah · May 27, 2005

Hi Terri,

Photos 4 and 8 are Prickly Pear. Number 6, I believe is a Yucca plant and number 9 is Lupine. Number 7 is what I call an Indian Paintbrush. And I think number 5 might be a pincushion barrel cactus. Hope this helps.

BTW nice photos

Terri French · May 28, 2005

Micah said:

Hi Terri,

Photos 4 and 8 are Prickly Pear. Number 6, I believe is a Yucca plant and number 9 is Lupine. Number 7 is what I call an Indian Paintbrush. And I think number 5 might be a pincushion barrel cactus. Hope this helps.

BTW nice photos
Click to expand...

Thank you so much for the ID Micah. I appreciate you taking the time to help me.

beaucamera · May 28, 2005

Terri, I really like your second photo and the cactus flowers shots.

Virginia
aka beaucamera

PhotoDawg · May 31, 2005

Terri, I love the second shot. Beauty in a harsh environment!! WOW!!

Log in / Register

Welcome to NikonCafe.com—a friendly Nikon camera & photography discussion forum!

More Flowers from the Southwest

Terri French Subscribing Member

Pa Subscribing Member

viewfinder

Terri French Subscribing Member

Micah

Terri French Subscribing Member

beaucamera

PhotoDawg