Wildflowers under windmills
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AlanLichty
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Neat result with the down in front focus on the flowers. This almost makes the wind mills look good 
I believe most of your blooms are Lupines given the shape of the blooming stalk. Arrow leaf balsam root has single blooms and there are a few in this cluster showing their bloom as white in IR over on the right hand side.
I believe most of your blooms are Lupines given the shape of the blooming stalk. Arrow leaf balsam root has single blooms and there are a few in this cluster showing their bloom as white in IR over on the right hand side.
Michael13
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Correct Alan, the white flowers here are the balsam root - in visible light they are yellow.Neat result with the down in front focus on the flowers. This almost makes the wind mills look good
I believe most of your blooms are Lupines given the shape of the blooming stalk. Arrow leaf balsam root has single blooms and there are a few in this cluster showing their bloom as white in IR over on the right hand side.
At least the windmills look better than a coal fired power plant.
AlanLichty
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I have visited there in early May a number of years back and shots where the slopes of Steptoe are covered in the yellow flowers of the balsam root but no visible lupines at all like in your shot. Maybe the lupines are more common down in the lower parts of the Palouse like your shot here.Correct Alan, the white flowers here are the balsam root - in visible light they are yellow.
At least the windmills look better than a coal fired power plant.
Ha ha... You know, I never thought of it that way. It sure does look better then an old Coal fired power plant.Correct Alan, the white flowers here are the balsam root - in visible light they are yellow.
At least the windmills look better than a coal fired power plant.
I go back and forth though on how much I like these huge windmills. They can certainly be fun to photograph. But then they also can cover a large area of land. Though as I think about it, in all of the places I have seen these from California to the midwest, actually they seem to pick the ugliest places to build them. So they don't seem to really be ruining any awesome landscapes.
