STUDIO GRIFFOTO FINE ART IMAGERY
  Carnival Revisited
  Bodie
  Bradbury
  Brooklyn First Snow 2017
  Carnival -- Venice
  Churches
  Death Valley 2019
  Fall Colors
  Florence
  Forest Light
  Form Photography
  Italian Churches Revisited
  Nature and Landscapes
  Pompei
  Road Trip 2016
  Road Trip 2018
  Siena
  Travel
  Up and Away: Airplanes and Balloons
  Venice
 
  Winter
  Yellowstone
  Florentine Sculpture
  Black and White Makes
  Winter in Black and White
  Digital Derivatives
  Abstract Form
  Airplanes
  Architecture
  Arno Abstract Reflections
  Doors
  Flowers
  Landscapes
  Masquerade
  More Masquerade
  Non-Objective
  Windows
818-421-3517
Camarillo CA 93012

WILDFLOWERS

Thanks to the uncharacteristically heavy rains that ended a four-year drought, a super bloom of wildflowers occurred in parts of southern and central California this spring. This phenomenon was dramatically apparent in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, a semi-arid, 247,000-acre grassland bordered by the Caliente Mountains on the south and west and the San Andreas Fault and  Temblor Mountain Range on the east.

I visited Carrizo the first weekend in April 2017 to photograph the wildflowers.  Needless to say, I was not disappointed.  As seen below, breathtaking vistas of yellow and gold, orange, purple, green and blue appeared throughout the Carrizo Plain and the surrounding mountains. For me, this was indeed a special experience to photograph an exceptional natural event.

CARRIZO 44
CARRIZ0 69
CARRIZO 23
CARRIZO 47
CARRIZO 3A
CARRIZO 4
CARRIZO 2A
CARRIZO 5
CARRIZO 6
CARRIZO 1A
CARRIZO 10
CARRIZO 14
CARRIZO 17
CARRIZO 21
CARRIZO 26
CARRIZO 29
CARRIZO 36
CARRIZO 37
CARRIZO 40
CARRIZO 41
CARRIZO 46
CARRIZO 48
CARRIZO 66
CARRIZO 72
CARRIZO 75
CARRIZO 76
CARRIZO 49
CARRIZO 65
CARRIZO 53
CARRIZO 91
CARRIZO 51
CARRIZO 73
CARRIZO 94
CARRIZO 93
CARRIZO 88