Pink Dogwood. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Spring pink dogwood blossoms and branches.
Blossoming dogwood trees rank high on the list of signs that spring is really and truly here. Many of us in California head to the lower elevations of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada at about this time each year to see the new blooms emerge. They produce a surprisingly dense burst of white color in forests that are often relatively shady.
However, these are not that type of dogwood. If you are one of those California dogwood fans, you certainly noticed the pink fringes on these flowers. Our native Sierra dogwood is more of a pure white specimen, though it can have a bit of yellow or green — but it most certainly does not have the color these flowers possess. I photographed them in a formal garden in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Thanks! And, yes, it sure speaks of spring, doesn’t it?
Dan
Even the blurred background has the light of spring! what was behind it just more plants from the garden?
The camera was aiming mostly up for this photograph, and what is behind the foreground flowers, leaves and branches… is more of the same farther away and higher.
Interesting I was thinking it was held level so that shows it takes a professional to get this kind of beauty!! that light is mesmerizing!!
In a situation like this one I may take quite a bit of time just wandering around and looking at the thing in different ways before I can see how to photograph it — and that was the case here.
What a perfectly lovely spring photo! Thank you!