Shooting Star Flowers. Quicksilver Park, California. March 28, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A colorful spring wildflower bouquet of shooting star flowers along a trail at Almaden Quicksilver Park, California.

On this weekend’s first hike I found my first shooting star flowers of the season. These were growing alongside my trail on a hillside in partial sun, and were among a small garden of many different types of California spring wildflowers. This particular spot is not too far from where I live, and it is a spot I return to every spring to photograph the flowers.

(Note: I posted this and other spring wildflower photos elsewhere. Twice this one elicited the same comment: “Great DOF.” Hmmm. That could mean several things, I suppose. It could mean that I “controlled DOF well for this subject.” It could mean that “limiting DOF was a good choice in this photograph.” Or, as I suspect, it might mean that some people are using the term “DOF” (or depth of field) when they are commenting on “bokeh,” the latter being the blurring of background subjects that are not in the DOF range. Just wondering…)

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