I wanted some quiet time on my day off. So, I left home early in the morning and decided it was going to be flower day. I found a place away from it all, surrounded by nature, with no planes circling overhead and most of all no cell coverage. Calls and texts from work had to wait until midday. With flowers, I wanted each image to be simple, it was just about the flower and the background. Seeing variations of the paintbrush flowers, they became the main subject. Looking at each flower from all directions, sometimes I was on my feet, other times on the ground. It all depended on the flower and what was around and behind it. When I was hiking in, I scouted the area where I wanted to stop to take the pictures. On my way back, with the camera in my hands, I took the pictures. Since the flowers were not moving, there was no hurry. Each picture was taken after I decided it was the best one of the flowers I was looking at. Calm comes over me whenever I look at the images taken that morning.
