A good number of my recent Death Valley (almost?) superbloom photographs feature vast fields of these yellow flowers. Because they appear in large numbers, standing tall and swaying in the wind, they are among the most obvious visual evidence of the bloom. It occurred to me that I rarely photograph them close up, so here’s an attempt t rectify that omission.
Desert gold flowers grow at the top of long stems above plants that may, in the right conditions, have some rather thick leaves. Because the stems are long and thin the plants are almost always waving back and forth in the breeze. This can make close-up photographs a bit of a challenge!
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