“Purple Larkspur” — Purple larkspur flowers, blooming in Northern California.
Recently I wrote — again! — about returned to unremarkable little “special places” that probably don’t have any meaning to anyone but me. This photograph comes from one that I mentioned, a train through a small ravine at a nearby country park. Every spring I go there to find and photograph a few favorite flowers, including a particular little area filled with these Larkspur flowers.
They are odd flowers, not like so many of the other popular spring wildflowers here. Their color is dark, sometimes so dark that is is quite difficult to photograph them. (I try to find them when they are still in the shadows, and the soft light helps reveal details.) Because of the way bunch of them grow on single stems, it can be hard to make a composition out of them, much less get a plane of focus that lines up ideally with their dense details.
