Goldfields Against The Temblor Range
Perry Way

Goldfields Against The Temblor Range

One of the more interesting shots from my wildflower season in late spring this year. The Goldfields this year in the Carrizo Plain were particularly vibrant, moreso than fields of Mustard. The yellow flowers the color of chrome yellow. The hills immediately behind are the last bits of the Pacific Plate. Just beyond them is where the Pacific and North American plates rub together in the notorious San Andreas Fault. The Temblor Range is the taller hills (well hills for California, but mountains elsewhere).
Location
Carrizo Plain, California
Equipment Used
Canon A1
Exposure
Yes the film was exposed!
Film & Developer
Fuji, some kind of color film, I don't pay attention to color details
Paper & Developer
Fuji.. corner drugstore, not bad actually
Lens Filter
None
Very interesting and well presented color work. The treatment of the 'hills' is particularly interesting and I don't think I have seen anything quite like it - very sharply delineated with nice soft colors.

George
 
keithwms said:
Indeed that is very beautiful! I'd love to have been there to experience that scene firsthand.

I've been to Carrizo Plain about 10 times this year so far hoping to catch it at a time that was reminiscent of John Muir's first encounters with the region. I was thinking of mentioning yesterday that this image really doesn't even begin to capture the beauty I experienced that day. My senses were simply overloaded that day as there were patches in some case of up to a mile long of solid Goldfields. There were also little tiny (as in about 5mm in diameter) purple flowers which I don't know the name of, and much larger areas of Fiddlenecks, but this year very sparsely populated with Poppies which are my primary love. If you go there now however, it is like a scene from hell. A vast, empty, baked grass land, bone dry and without a drop of water.
 

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