McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolesville, Maryland is my favorite place to photograph sunflowers every summer. Montgomery County plants several fields of sunflowers – and for a brief time in either July or August – the fields are in full bloom – with hundreds of photographers and artists enjoying the beautiful flowers.
This year – the sunflowers bloomed a little early – peak started fourth of July weekend and was pretty much done in the main field a week later. I spent a couple of hours photographing with my new Sony a6000 camera one morning. The sunflowers gave me a chance to work with the Sony 30mm macro lens on the a6000. Turns out that once I had the camera and lens on my tripod – it’s a great combination for close-up photos of sunflowers. Most of the photos I took that morning were taken with the 30mm macro lens.
Here are a few of my photos showing the wonderful details in the blooming sunflowers.
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Sunflower © 2015 Patty Hankins
Since I just took these photos a few days ago, I haven’t had a chance to make any of them available as prints yet. I do have several sunflower photos taken in previous years available as matted prints and as gallery wrapped canvases on my website at http://beautifulflowerpictures.com/collection/asters/sunflowers/
Hello ? Patty !
I googled ” sunflower in MD” and found your site.
It is amazing, and touched me.
I live in Alexandria VA , and photogarphy is my NO. 1 hobby.
I have been Jerettsville a couple of times in recent years.
I’d like to go there but don’t know when they blooms fully.
Do you have any infromation on this ?
It will be a great help for me.
Thank you and have a good night.
Kwang Kim
As far as I know – the fields in Jerettsville tend to bloom in September. I think the papers in Baltimore have had articles a few times about the fields there – so it may be worth checking the Baltimore Sun website. Hope this helps