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Colorado Wildflowers IV – San Juan Mountains

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 27, 2010 | Colorado, Flowers, Photo Locations, Wildflowers

In addition to photographing in the Gunnison National Forest, I spent some time in the San Juan Mountains on my recent trip to Colorado to photograph wildflowers. While in the San Juan Mountains, I was photographing at a higher elevation than I was in the Gunnison National Forest so I was finding flowers at a little earlier in the blooming cycle. I was based in Ouray for this part of my trip.

Here are a few of my wildflowers photos from the San Juan Mountains.

Colorado Blue Columbine – Aquilegia Caerulea

Fireweed – chamerion angustifolium

Rosy Paintbrush -Castilleja rhexiifolia

Western Indian Paintbrush – Castilleja occidentalis

I hope you’ve enjoyed the Colorado wildflower photos I’ve been posting for the past week or so. I had a wonderful time on the trip – and am really looking forward to doing some serious editing on my photos – and deciding which ones I’ll be offering as fine art photographs in the weeks and months to come. If there are any of the wildflowers you’ve particularly liked – let me know and I’ll be sure to let you know if I do offer them as photos on canvas.

Colorado Wildflowers III – Gunnison National Forest

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 25, 2010 | Colorado, Flowers, Photo Locations, Wildflowers

Here are a few more Colorado wildflowers I photographed in the Gunnison National Forest outside of Crested Butte. The wildflowers were incredible. I’ve photographed enough eastern wildflowers that I often could recognize what the western flowers were related to. It was wonderful seeing the similarities and differences in the wildflowers between Colorado, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Case’s Fitweed – Corydalis caseana

Nodding Sunflower – Helianthella quinquenervis

Orange Paintbrush – Castilleja integra

Fairy Trumpets – Ipomopsis aggregata

I saw so many hummingbirds at the various stands of Orange Paintbrush and Fairy Trumpets – they really do like the red wildflowers.

Colorado Wildflowers II – Gunnison National Forest

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 22, 2010 | Colorado, Flowers, Photo Locations, Wildflowers

I spent several days on my recent trip to Colorado photographing in the Gunnison National Forest in the Crested Butte area. Here are a few of the wildflower photos I took in the area. I loved all the shades of blue and purple I was seeing in the Colorado wildflowers.

Colorado Blue Columbine – Aquilegia coerulea – the state wildflower of Colorado

Silvery Lupine – Lupinus argenteus

Western Blue Flax – Linum perenne

I’ll be posting more of my Colorado wildflower photos in a few days. I hope you’re enjoying them.

Colorado Wildflowers I

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 20, 2010 | Colorado, Flowers, Photo Locations, Wildflowers

I got back home a few days ago from a fantastic trip to Colorado. I’d headed west to photograph wildflowers. Over the years I’ve seen so many photographs of fields of wildflowers leading up into the mountains, that I just had to go see (and photograph) them.

Prior to this trip, I really hadn’t spent much time in Colorado – I’d changed planes in Denver and attended a conference just outside the city. I had no idea just how spectacular the landscapes I was going to be seeing were.

The photos in this first Colorado Wildflower post are the big landscapes. It was incredible to see acres of wildflowers – leading up to the treeline – the rocky faces of the mountains above – and finally the amazing bright blue skies.

These four photo were all taken in the Gunnison National Forest outside of Crested Butte. I think it’ll be easy for you to see why I fell in love with the area.

This last photo is from Yankee Boy Basin outside of Ouray.

I’ll be posting photos of some of the individual wildflowers I photographed over the next few days. But first I wanted to give you an idea of the spectacular landscapes I was photographing in.

Most of these photos are quick edits that I did while I was on the road and posted to Twitter and Facebook. I wanted to make sure that readers of my blog got a chance to see them as well.